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The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.
Eric Schmidt
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Eric Schmidt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 27
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