美政府調查谷歌公司商業行爲

The U.S. government has launched an investigation into whether Internet search engine Google is using its dominance to promote its products while blocking competitors.

美國政府對互聯網搜索引擎公司谷歌展開調查，以確定該公司是否利用其市場絕對優勢來促銷其產品，封堵競爭對手。

Google controls more than 65 percent of web searches worldwide and earns most of its money - billions of dollars - in search-related advertising.

谷歌控制着全球超過65%的網絡搜索市場，它賺取的多達數十億美元的利潤，大部分來自與搜索相關的廣告業務。

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it wants to know whether Google is using its dominance in searches not only to earn advertising revenue but also to channel users to its growing network of services.

美國聯邦貿易委員會說，它想要知道谷歌是否利用其在搜索領域的絕對優勢，在賺取廣告收入的同時，也將用戶引入其日益增長的各種服務項目。

The FTC investigation mirrors a similar probe the European Union opened last year. The U.S. state of Texas also is looking at Google's business practices.

聯邦貿易委員會的調查參照了歐盟去年展開的類似調查。美國德克薩斯州也正在調查谷歌的商業行爲。

Google executives say they do not believe they are doing anything wrong or violating any antitrust laws.

谷歌高層主管表示，他們不認爲自己存在錯誤行爲或是違反了反壟斷法。

In the 1990s the FTC looked into the business practices of Microsoft and whether it was using its Windows operating system to kill competing software makers.

在二十世紀九十年代聯邦貿易委員會調查了微軟的商業行爲，看其是否利用視窗操作系統來扼殺與其競爭的軟件製造商。