Antitrust Case Against Google, And (Surprise, surprise!) Microsoft's Behind It
The European Union has opened an antitrust investigation into Google to look into claims made by three European-based Internet companies. Not surprisingly, this key part of the investigation is said to be about search, which is dominated by Google is most of the EU markets. The Telegraph and WSJ have more details.
This is only in its early stages, and nothing might come of it, but it's fun to see Microsoft throw its weight behind this. The EU has been a happy hunting ground for antitrust lawyers, so maybe this might actually take wings.
“Google has always used various penalty filters to remove certain sites entirely from its search results or place them so far down the rankings that they will never be found." [...] Foundem claims that Google lifted the “penalty” in December, resulting in an increase in traffic from Google searches of “10,000pc overnight”.
