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(Reuters) - Google Inc is confident that U.S. antitrust regulators will clear the search giant of any wrongdoing, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will tell a congressional panel on Wednesday.

Google has been broadly accused of using its clout in the search market to stomp rivals as it moves into adjacent businesses, like travel search. The Federal Trade Commission is looking into that charge, and others, including that Google manipulates its search result rankings to give preference to its own products.

"While no company would request such a government investigation, we are confident that our business practices will stand up to scrutiny," Schmidt said in written testimony submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel.

Representatives for rival companies, including Expedia Inc, Yelp Inc and Nextag Inc, will testify at the hearing after Schmidt.

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