谷歌否認指控：我們沒有修改搜索結果
Google's executive chairman has denied that the company fixes its search results to promote its own websites and services. 谷歌執行董事長否認公司爲推廣自己的網站和服務而修改搜索結果。
Eric Schmidt told a congressional hearing in Washington: "May I simply say that I can assure you we're not cooking anything." 埃裏克·施密特在華盛頓參議院聽證會上表示：“我可以簡單地說，我保證谷歌沒有修改任何搜索結果。”
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on anti-trust is looking at whether Google abuses its market position. 美國參議院司法委員會反壟斷小組委員會目前正在調查谷歌是否利用其市場地位打壓競爭對手。
The US Federal Trade Commission is also investigating the same issue. 美國聯邦貿易委員會也正在調查這一事件。
The website search giant faces a further continuing investigation by the European Commission. 網站搜索巨頭谷歌還將面臨歐洲委員會的一系列深入調查。
Mr. Schmidt told the senators: "Google does nothing to block access to any of the competitors and other sources of information." 施密特向參議員表示，谷歌沒有采取任何手段來阻止訪問任何競爭者或其他消息來源。
When asked whether Google was a monopoly company, Mr Schmidt said the search engine giant was "in that area", adding that it recognized it had a special responsibility because of its market power. 當被問到谷歌是否是壟斷公司時，施密特表示谷歌是搜索引擎行業的領頭羊，也由於擁有強大市場力，谷歌認識到一份特別的責任。
In reference to software giant Microsoft - which faced years of anti-competition investigations and subsequent fines - Mr Schmidt said: "We get it. By that I mean, we get the lessons of our corporate predecessors." 施密特提到軟件行業巨頭微軟面臨長期的反競爭調查和罰款的例子，表示谷歌從行業前輩的教訓中學到了經驗。
Concern over Google's domination of the internet search - it has a global market share of about two-thirds - has grown as the company continues to expand into other internet areas, such as its own price comparison website and buying US mobile phone firm Motorola Mobility. 谷歌佔據了搜索引擎行業全球市場份額的三分之二，統治地位不容小覷。隨着谷歌公司開始進軍其他互聯網領域，其他公司對谷歌的霸主地位的擔憂也日漸增長。谷歌開發了自己的價格比較網站，另外還買下了美國移動電話公司摩托羅拉。
Sen Michael Lee of Utah said that Google's market dominance gave it an "unnatural and extraordinary advantage", and it had a "clear and inherent conflict of interest". 猶他州參議員邁克·李表示，谷歌公司的市場統治地位給予了其“不同常理卻又得天獨厚的優勢”，同時也給予了“明顯的內在利益衝突”。
Mr Schmidt was chief executive of Google for 10 years until April, when he was replaced by Larry Page, one of the company's two founders. 施密特擔任了谷歌10年的首席執行官，今年四月份卸任。接替其位置的是公司創始人之一的拉里·佩奇。
