Google shutting out rivals, claims Russian search engine

Posted in: Government & Policy at 20/04/2012 14:39

The co-founder of Russia's leading search engine, Yandex, has accused Google of abusing its dominance to shut out competitors in cyberspace.

Responding to comments made to the Guardian by Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder, about threats to the open internet, Ilya Segalovich described the US search giant's popular smartphone platform, Android, as a "strange combination of openness and not openness" and its Chrome web browser as anti-competitive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/19/google-rivals-russian-search-engine

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