Google turns 20 - まっただ中に growing questions over whether the search engine that started in a Silicon Valley garage has become too powerful
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin 始める,決める out to 組織する all of the internet's (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状)?
- Google has now morphed into a 支配するing 軍隊 in smartphones, ビデオ, email, 地図/計画するs and is even devloping self 運動ing cars
- 数字表示式の 広告 商売/仕事 is on pace to 生成する about $110 billion in 歳入 this year
Twenty years after Larry Page and Sergey Brin 始める,決める out to 組織する all of the internet's (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状), the search engine they 指名するd Google has morphed into a 支配するing 軍隊 in smartphones, online ビデオ, email, 地図/計画するs and much more.
That resounding success now has regulators and 国会議員s around the world 尋問 whether the company has become too powerful as its ubiquitous services vacuum up 極度の慎重さを要する (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) about billions of people 麻薬中毒の on its 製品s.
Google's search engine remains 堅固に守るd as the internet's main gateway, and its 数字表示式の advertising 商売/仕事 is on pace to 生成する about $110 billion in 歳入 this year.?
Scroll 負かす/撃墜する for ビデオ?

Google's co-創立者s, CEO Larry Page, left, and Chairman Sergey Brin, 残り/休憩(する) on bean 捕らえる、獲得するs at Google's (警察,軍隊などの)本部 in Mountain 見解(をとる), Calif in 2000, when the 会社/堅い first moved into the area
Much of that 歳入 now flows through Google's Android operating system, which 力/強力にするs 80 パーセント of the world's smartphones.?
Google also runs the biggest ビデオ 場所/位置 in YouTube, the most popular web browser in Chrome, the 最高の,を越す email service in Gmail and the 地図/計画するs that most people use to get around.
Not bad for a company that started 20 years ago Friday with an 初期の 投資 of $100,000.?
Google and its sibling companies operating under the umbrella of Alphabet Inc. are now 価値(がある) $800 billion.
Although Google wouldn't comment for this story, the company has 繰り返して pointed out that its mostly 解放する/自由な 製品s are so 広範囲にわたって used because people like them.
Google's success often draws comparisons with Microsoft.

In this Jan. 15, 2004, とじ込み/提出する photo Google co-創立者s Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin 提起する/ポーズをとる for a photo at their company's (警察,軍隊などの)本部 in Mountain 見解(をとる), Calif< /p>
By 1998, the year Google started, U.S. regulators had become so 関心d about Microsoft's 力/強力にする through its Windows operating system that they had begun to 調査する a 軍隊d 崩壊/分裂.?
Although Microsoft remained 損なわれていない, the multiyear 戦う/戦い with the U.S. 政府 and other 論争s with European regulators hobbled and distracted Microsoft, helping to 推進する the rise of Google and Apple.
Google is now 直面するing the same 可能性のある 運命/宿命.
'Google is in the 政府's crosshairs,' said Ken Auletta, who was given inside 接近 to the company while 令状ing his 2009 調書をとる/予約する, 'Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.'?
'This company once had a 確かな glow to it, but it is losing its halo.'
Just this past week, Google raised hackles in 議会 by 辞退するing to send Page or its 現在の CEO, Sundar Pichai, to a 審理,公聴会 on ロシアの 巧みな操作 of internet services to sway U.S. 選挙s.?
連邦議会の 公式の/役人s left an empty 議長,司会を務める while 最高の,を越す (n)役員/(a)執行力のあるs from Facebook and Twitter appeared.?

In this Feb. 20 2013, とじ込み/提出する photo, Google co-創立者 Sergey Brin wears a Google Glass 装置 in San Francisco, in what was seen as a major misstep for the company.

Google CEO Larry Page introduces Google ビデオ 蓄える/店 Friday, Jan. 6, 2006 at the 消費者 Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas.
感情を害する/違反するd 国会議員s derided Google as 'arrogant.'
The European (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 already has 課すd 罰金s totaling $7.8 billion after 結論するing the company had 不公平に used its search engine to 最高潮の場面 its own services and 不法に bundled together its p roducts in Android.
Google has 否定するd any 悪事を働くこと, but that hasn't discouraged European regulators from looking into other possible 乱用s.?

In this Sept. 2, 2008 とじ込み/提出する photo, Google co-創立者s Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page talk during a new 会議/協議会 at Google Inc. (警察,軍隊などの)本部 in Mountain 見解(をとる), Calif

Google's George Reyes (L), 長,指導者 財政上の officer; Dr. Eric E. Schmidt (2nd-L), chairman of the (n)役員/(a)執行力のある 委員会 and CEO; Omid Kordestani (3rd-L), 上級の 副/悪徳行為 大統領,/社長 世界的な Sales & Field 操作/手術s; Larry Page (C), co-創立者 and 大統領,/社長, 製品s; Robert Greifeld (2nd-R), NASDAQ 大統領,/社長 and CEO; and David Drummond (R), Google 副/悪徳行為 大統領,/社長 of 法人組織の/企業の 開発 at the 開始 of Google's public 申し込む/申し出ing on the NASDAQ
U.S. 大統領 Donald Trump and some U.S. regulators are now raising the 可能性 of 開始 new 調査s into Google's 商売/仕事 and privacy practices five years after the 連邦の 貿易(する) (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 decided the company was mostly 従うing with the 法律s.
It all paints a picture of a company that may spend the next 10年間 fighting to 保護する the empire it built during its first two 10年間s.
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