Former Google CEO 'Screwed Up' on Facebook Threat


San Francisco, June 1 (AP) If he had another chance, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt would have pressed the Internet search leader to focus more on mounting a challenge to Facebook while he was still running the company.

"I screwed up," Schmidt said late yesterday during a 75-minute question-and-answer session at the D: All Things conference in Rancho Palos Verde, California.

The Associated Press watched a webcast of the conference.

Schmidt's admission comes nearly two months after he ended his decade-long stint as Google's CEO and became the company's executive chairman.

He was replaced by Google co-founder Larry Page, who is pushing the company's employees to develop more ways to connect people with their friends and family like Facebook already does.

That was a priority that Schmidt said he started addressing in internal memos written about four years ago when Facebook had about 20 million active users.

  

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