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"Is it possible to be quoted shrugging my shoulders?" asks Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich when Fox News requested the company's comment on Cleland's book.
"Everyone knows that Mr. Cleland stopped being a neutral analyst years ago and is now paid by Microsoft and AT&T to criticize Google full-time."
Cleland, who is also president of a consulting firm, Precursor, has been described as "a payola pundit" by critics, who they say is a consultant to some of Google's competitors, including Microsoft and AT&T.
When Fox News asked him if he is, in fact, paid by those Google competitors, Cleland refused to confirm it or reveal the names of any of his clients, saying, "I have a research consultancy and I have Fortune 500 clients. I don't discuss who my clients are at any given time, but I do work for Fortune 500 companies."
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