The company's chairman of the board of directors of Google, Eric Schmidt announced that the biggest competitor in the search engines on the market at the time, even Microsoft's Bing or Yahoo, as was previously thought possible, and the Amazon. It E.Schmidt told, during his visit to Berlin (Germany).
Amazon is well known as an e-commerce titan, but when Internet users perform a lot of queries. Some users are looking for products through search engines (like Google), while others go directly to the Amazon home page and looking for it directly.
Another survey conducted in August showed that Google is the most popular Web page to 233.1 million. unique users visiting here at least once a month, while Amazon has 6 place with 172 million. visitors.
It is likely that it is not in vain in Google Chairman recalled the competitors, as it is in Europe four years ago, the company has been accused of anti-trust legislation.
In 2014. In February an agreement was reached that provides queries that search results will be displayed for at least three competitors in the services provided in the search results is at least one link to Google services.
According E.Schmidt, Facebook, or Amazon's what makes the Internet at a lower impact than Google. He also suggested that the growth of mobile Internet users poses a threat to the company's position, because they tend to work with mobile apps, and Google is not the same page. The most popular mobile gadget is now on Facebook.
In addition, the Google search rankings of the market threatens to turn starter to my Google chairman. These words should not be a surprise, because once Google became the most ominous rival the then giants such as Yahoo, Alta Vista, Infoseek and Lycos.
