Critical conjectures on confinement in the Landau gauge is numerically test
ed in focus to Gribov copy effects. One of the subjects is of the Kugo-Ojim
a confinement criterion and the other is of various viewpoints in the Gribo
v-Zwanziger theory. We use the smearing gauge as a reference gauge free of
Gribov copy, and performed three types of simulations, log U, U-linear and
log U in the smearing gauge. It is found that Gribov copy effect on the Kug
o-Ojima parameter is small. log U and U-linear simulations yield only globa
l scale factor difference in gluon propagator, but nontrivial difference of
momentum behaviour in ghost propagator, and about 10% difference in Kugo-O
jima parameter. The horizon function defined by Zwanziger is evaluated in t
hree types of gauge field and compared. All data show the negative horizon
function as expected.