美政府调查谷歌公司商业行为

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.

美国政府对互联网搜索引擎公司谷歌展开调查，以确定该公司是否利用其市场绝对优势来促销其产品，封堵竞争对手。

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

谷歌控制着全球超过65%的网络搜索市场，它赚取的多达数十亿美元的利润，大部分来自与搜索相关的广告业务。

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.

美国联邦贸易委员会说，它想要知道谷歌是否利用其在搜索领域的绝对优势，在赚取广告收入的同时，也将用户引入其日益增长的各种服务项目。

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.

联邦贸易委员会的调查参照了欧盟去年展开的类似调查。美国德克萨斯州也正在调查谷歌的商业行为。

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

谷歌高层主管表示，他们不认为自己存在错误行为或是违反了反垄断法。

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.

在二十世纪九十年代联邦贸易委员会调查了微软的商业行为，看其是否利用视窗操作系统来扼杀与其竞争的软件制造商。