Google CEO says he expects more government scrutiny

Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said he expects more regulatory scrutiny from around the world and the company is paying more attention to the way it approaches certain business issues as a result of the attention. But Schmidt told reporters it had not crossed his mind to recuse himself from the board of Apple Inc, even as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission looks into whether the ties between the two companies violate antitrust laws. “What is changed is that we are more careful about when and how we do things which are going to raise concerns of any party,” Schmidt told a room of journalists at the company’s Mountain View, California headquarters ahead of its annual shareholder meeting on Thursday.

“But it hasn’t prevented us from doing them,” Schmidt added. – from Reuters