“Microsoft and other Google foes say Google’s powerful search engine and its move into other markets — from advertising to mobile phones to travel — has stunted industry-wide competition ,” Romm and Zapler report. “Google has described itself as under siege – the victim of a Microsoft-led ‘anti-Google industrial complex.’”
“In an early-morning blog post Thursday, Microsoft executive Brad Smith said the company’s European Commission filing accuses Google of having ‘engaged in a broadening pattern of walling off access to content and data that competitors need to provide search results to consumers and to attract advertisers,’” Romm and Zapler report. “Smith offered a litany of examples of what he describes as Google’s anti-competitive practices — arguing, for instance, that Google has disadvantaged competitors in video search, promoted its search boxes through exclusivity deals and sought to leverage its size over competitors in the neophyte e-book market.”
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