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Eric Schmidt released a statement as a response to a Senate subcommittee where he claimed that Google was not monopolistic. Among these responses one of them also touched the subject of Apple’s new software, Siri.

“[H]istory shows that popular technology is often supplanted by entirely new models. Even in the few weeks since the hearing, Apple has launched an entirely new approach to search technology with Siri, its voice-activated search and task-completion service built into the iPhone 4S. As one respected technology site reported: “Everyone keeps insisting that Apple will eventually get into the search engine business. Well they have. But not in the way that everyone was thinking. Siri is their entry point.” Another commentator has described Siri more simply as intended to be a “Google killer,” he wrote.

Eric Schmidt fought hard to convince the committee that Google is not monopolistic even though it controls two-thirds of the market share. These statements he released were meant to build up his case.

In April, Google’s CFO, Patrick Pichett, said that “everybody that uses Chrom is a guaranteed locked-in user for us…” Talking about this statement, Eric Schmidt said: “Mr. Pichette’s comment is not correct. Chrome users are not in any way “locked-in” for Google. Chrome users can easily change the browswer’s default search engine to any competing search engine. It is as easy as selecting the “Preference” menu in Chrome and selecting your desired search engine from the drop-down menu. In addition, a user who downloads Chrome actually has to select the search engine he or she wants; Google is not set as the default.”