Send your questions for Google CEO Eric Schmidt

CNET will sit down soon with Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt for an interview.

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First Chopra, then Ballmer, and now, for the next installment of CNET Conversations, we'll be talking to Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

There are, to put it mildly, a few things to talk about. From Android explosion to Net neutrality to cloud computing to music search to the company setting its sights on the enterprise to, well, your questions. Google is possibly the most dynamic and influential company in the tech space right now, with its fingers in just about every possible pie. Our biggest challenge in speaking with Schmidt will most likely be limiting our conversations to a reasonable length of time.

CNET News' Tom Krazit and I will conduct the interview, but as always, we'd like you to be part of the conversation. Comment on this post to submit your questions for Eric Schmidt. We'll choose a few of the most interesting and provocative ones, and if you include your name, title, and company, we'll even give you credit. This ought to be a good one.

[Police_States_of_America]

Where is the balance between privacy and "organizing the world's information"?

Does google have time limits on data retention policies for all of it's products, such as Youtube searches?

Will googlebookmarks become available to integrate with Chrome (browser)?

Will Chrome OS run pre-existing Linux applications?

Will Google start contributing to the Linux kernel anytime soon?

[alfonso220]

Hi Molly, I wanted to ask Mr. Schmidt if they are going to make more compatible Mac apps with Google apps?. For example, Google Tasks and Mail or Google apps and iPhone.

Thank you. Love the show!

Questions for Eric Schmidt,
Am using Google (Email, photo, voice chat, IM, word processing, calendars, RSS reading, blog, bookmarks, voicemail, and website analytics) which has my critical and personal data. What if tomorrow google vanishes in thin air, just like lehman bro (not how it doomed, but it just did). What would you think will happen to end user's life. Should they put all the eggs in single basket?

[chkneo]

How will Android fast release cycle work? For example before moving to 1.6, 2.0 version has come.

[davidleew]

Define "monopoly" and explain why market share maximum has always been set at around 30% with the FCC/FTC. When the Paramount case occurred back coming our of the depression it was not only Paramount that dominated several aspects of the film industry...how is Google's massive ownership of many aspects of the internet any different?

[Craigbg]

Google just expanded into a big new facility next door to my home in Kirkland, WA. Google's obviously doing really well with it's advertisement services. One of the biggest complaints about Google is it's lack of customer service (Googled it). Is it possible, with a lack of customer service, Google can continue to increase it's online offerings while losing customer interest? I have a passion for Google products but I'm continually frustrated and hit tech question road blocks. Continually having this frustration makes people want to find a more customer friendly company like Apple Inc.
Apple is a good example of a customer oriented company who's built one of the most well respected brands in the tech industry. With free in store support the average user can become fluid users. I predict, if Google fails to support their customers and interact with their customers, Google will do well in the short term but in the long run will become irrelevant technology

[Seanathome]

Mr. Schmidt, please explain what Google Wave is and what it's going to do in non-technical terms.

I would like a comment on the latest Onion News parody about the "Google Opt-Out Button". Do you believe that your company still angers privacy advocates?

[kcburton16]

Hey Eric, are you in fact a reptilian humanoid from the constellation Draco?

[dascha1]

What status is there for the company plan to address Accessibility for desktop, laptop and ongoing development/improvement with iphone, devices for things related to medical words and phrases in the search. Is it touch, touchless (wave), speech input and output or the combination that ties it all together for the solution? Just small and medium-sized screens or have they replaced that giant whiteboard in their HQ Lobby yet? Thanks!

[AppleSuxLeo]

Mr Schmidt , I see your new turn-by-turn system as the killer app on a mobile phone. I`d buy the Droid just for that. Seriously !
Won`t you keep it on Android only to enhance Android phone sales ? (I would)
Or possibly license it out to other platforms (in a lower-tech state)

[AppleSuxLeo]

Mr. Schmidt , I had an idea the other day that Google could be the one to make Linux on the desktop a success A "Google distro" so to speak , for consumer use.
With Google behind it I could see them putting out the drivers we need that we don`t have now.
And like the Android phones , people would buy it because it says "with Google"
Google could pull it off.

[dedoke]

The customer service issue posted in another post is a real issue. I love Google, and it's products, but have been unable to get a resolution to a dropped call issue posted in Google Voice some time ago--where's customer service?

[shmody]

Thanks for taking this question Mr. Schmidt -
As Apple has grown into more than a computer company and Microsoft into more than a software company, what does Google plan to grow into? Is there a 20-30 year business plan for the company in that regard?
Very best,
Shalin

[danorama]

Google has gotten a lot of press lately on its green initiatives. It seems to me that if Google were really serious about addressing energy problems, you would cease plans to build a new corporate campus and launch an initiative to have most, if not all, of your staff telecommute on a regular basis (i.e., at least 4 days/week). Why not roll out telepresence technology to all of your employees? It seems silly for knowledge workers in the 21st century to sit in cars (or Bauer's buses) on crowded freeways twice a day.

[nicomag]

What do you say when Sean Parker says the future of the web is owned by Facebook and Twitter, not Google?

When will voice search come to other languages than english?

Does Blogger already belong to the past?

When do you think the Wave protocol will take on instant messaging or e-mail? 2012? 2015?

Go for it Molly!

[justAfriendlyQuestion]

Does Google look to acquire first and crush second? With Google's size and resources there are few things you aren't able to do on your own if you want to. What value do you place on acquiring companies with innovative ideas and energy versus crushing them with your might ? For example, you acquired GrandCentral and their founders and service have become a big part of Google Voice, but there are other areas where you have chosen not to look to acquire first. What are your thoughts about Google creating a fear to innovate based on your size and abilities?

[ws6daveg]

Yahoo was once an internet giant and is now a struggling company. For me Yahoo lost its reputation when it seemed that it started forcing its app upon your browser.
What is the gameplan for how Google will continue to expand its offerings without falling into the same trap that Yahoo did?

[OWLADMIN]

Being a non profit, we figured Google Apps would be a great choice. however; our boss would like a nice html signature for our email. With all you do, any chance of getting an html signature for google apps that reads from our google apps information for name, address, company, department, phone, cell, etc..., so that even though we use google, we could have a nice HTML sig. as an administrator i would love to see being able to upload a template to google apps so that all our sigs could look the same.

Also what about a setting in google apps that would allow the administrator to say any mail in the inbox, that is unlabeled gets sent to the trash after x number of days.

Thank You
Ken

[Tech Victim]

Why hasn't Google done more on the retail front with its Google Checkout product(s)?

[StevieD9325]

Your frist aquisition of a public company appeaers to be ONT. Ont had been the target of a viscious naked short attack spending months on the top ten list. Then with the pps decimated by the attack and a few other methods GOOG entered into a secret agreement to purchase ONT based on the pummelled PPS. Many of us long term shareholders held because we believed in the technology and in fact said it is just a matter of time before a Google will need us. Instead of getting a contract you took the company out from under us. How does this fit in with your Do No Evil theme?