At the end of an all-day Monday event at Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters – where the Internet search biggie hosted nearly 400 information technology managers and urged the adoption of Internet-based software at their organizations -, Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledged that Google has increasingly clashed with regulators and other technology firms.

Talking about Google’s weakness during the question-and-answer session after Google's Atmosphere 2010, Schmidt said: “We're quite disruptive, and in the course of that disruption we tend to create enemies, which are hopefully not intended on our part.”

Furthermore, about the challenges that the company faces, Schmidt said: “Every government sort of has some group that's busy trying to figure out what we're up to. Because information is power.”

Noting that Google has learnt some hard security lessons after the last-year cyberattacks against it - some of the company’s intellectual property was hacked during the China-originated attacks -, Schmidt said that the company is now “particularly paranoid” about security; and has not only begun locking down its systems, but has also speeded up its plans to move to Web-based systems like Chrome OS netbooks.

Saying that Google’s Web services and Web platforms will be “inherently more secure” than the other available alternatives, Schmidt urged the attendees to ensure that all their computers run the latest version of the browsers and operating systems that they may be using.