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"Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has claimed that Google now has a monopoly that authorities should control. The Verge reports that Ballmer made the claims at a Microsoft financial analysts meeting yesterday (September 19).  &amp;quot;They have this incredible, amazing, dare I say monopoly that we are the only person left on the planet trying to compete with,&amp;quot; Ballmer said. The 57-year-old believes that no other search engine has put up a fight against Google&amp;#039;s dominance, and Microsoft are &amp;quot;the only guys in the world trying&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;I do believe that Google&amp;#039;s practices are worthy of discussion with competition authority, and we have certainly discussed them with competition authorities,&amp;quot; Ballmer continued. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think their practices are getting less meritorious of discussion. &amp;quot;I think they need pressure from competition authority. I think they need pressure in the marketplace.&amp;quot; Bing recently revealed a rebrand which aligns it closer to existing Microsoft products. The search engine market share for the UK in August saw Google with a leading 89.11% share, while Bing sat at second with 6.35%, according to StatCounter Global Stats. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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