• Guardian, Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:11 PM

Russian search engine Yandex's co-founder has accused Google of shutting out competitors on the Web, after Google Co-founder Sergey Brin told the Guardian the future of the open Internet fell under threat from a coalition of governments, but also from private companies, naming Facebook and Apple. Countering that comment, Ilya Segalovich described Google's smartphone platform, Android, as a "'strange combination of openness and not openness." Yandex and Google are top competitors in Russia. As a reminder, Brin immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union at the age of six, according to Wikipedia.

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