mr. stoppelman will help us on that. thank you. >> thank you very much. senator blumenthal. >> thank you for having this hearing, which i think is very important. thank you for being here, mr. schmidt. we welcome you here and i want to join my colleagues who have remarked on what a tremendous success story google is, a great american success story, a great consumer success story. and i certainly have formed no conclusions whatsoever as to any of the questions you have been asked or others that may relate to the concerns that have been expressed, those concerns focusing on the size and market power of google and whether it is of a scope and scale that it invokes certain responsibilities under our law and whether or not google has complied with those responsibilities. but there's no question about the fact that google is really the bee me moth in the search market these days, and that it far out sizes its nearest competitor, which has less than percent of the market as compared to google's or percent more in searches and an even higher share in advertising r