Ebay’s chief executive has added weight to Google’s antitrust defence by saying that the pair are direct competitors in online shopping, echoing the US search group’s claim that Brussels misunderstands how people buy products online.
eBay首席执行官约翰•多纳霍(John Donahoe)的言论支持了美国搜索集团谷歌(Google)的反垄断辩护。他说，eBay与谷歌在网络购物领域是直接竞争对手，这呼应了谷歌的说法。谷歌曾声称，布鲁塞尔方面没有理解人们的在线购物方式。

John Donahoesaid in an interview with the Financial Times that barriers were breaking down between different areas of online commerce. The auction website chief’s comments support arguments already made by Google in its first response to the European Commission’s landmark competition case.
在接受英国《金融时报》采访时，多纳霍表示，不同电商领域之间的壁垒正在打破。该拍卖网站CEO的言论，支持了谷歌首次回应欧盟委员会(European Commision)反垄断案时的说法。
Brussels’ complaint, announced this month, focuses on a claim that Google has abused its dominance of web search to squeeze out rival specialist shopping search engines by favouring its own in-house service.
本月，欧盟公布了对谷歌的起诉，重点是指控谷歌涉嫌滥用在网络搜索方面的主导地位，通过偏向其旗下服务的方式，将其在购物搜索引擎方面的对手排挤出市场。
Google has responded by saying that European regulators have not recognised how it is dwarfed in online shopping by eBay and Amazon, making questions about how it handles product queries on its own site beside the point.
谷歌对此回应称，欧洲监管机构没有认识到谷歌在网络购物领域比eBay和亚马逊(Amazon)逊色许多，以致其对谷歌网站处理商品查询方式的质疑离题万里。
Asked if eBay was a direct competitor of Google Shopping, Mr Donahoe said: “Yes . . . We are a strong commerce competitor [of Google’s].”
在被问到eBay是否是谷歌购物(Google Shopping)直接竞争对手时，多纳霍表示：“没错……我们是（谷歌的）强劲商业对手。”