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Google CEO: Hopefully we won't repeat Microsoft's past mistakes

Todd Bishop on Thursday, November 5, 2009, 7:07pm PST

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Eric Schmidt appeared on Fox Business Network tonight for an extensive interview with host Neil Cavuto, who pressed the Google CEO a couple times over whether the company has the potential to become the next Microsoft when it comes to antitrust issues and its attempts to fend off new Internet rivals.

"Hopefully we won't repeat the mistakes that Microsoft made 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that happened to them," Schmidt says just before the 3:00 minute mark in the video above.

In the segment below, Cavuto asks about the potential for Twitter and Facebook to take momentum away from Google among younger Internet users, similar to how companies like Google came along to trump Microsoft. In response, Schmidt says that users of the social networking services are actually using Google even more.

"The general question of leadership and ‘are you the next Microsoft’ is really a function of attitude," Schmidt says. "The companies that you mention (IBM and Microsoft) made mistakes years ago that hopefully we're not making. Hopefully the mistakes that we’re making now won’t put us in those kinds of predicaments."

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