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Google Says Microsoft Is Driving Antitrust Review
GovTechGuy writes "On Friday we discussed news that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott opened a probe into whether Google ranks its search listings with an eye toward nicking the competition. Google suggested the concerns have a major sponsor: Microsoft. In question is whether the world's biggest search engine could be unfairly disadvantaging some companies by giving them a low ranking in free search listings and in paid ads that appear at the top of the page. That could make it tough for users to find those sites and might violate antitrust laws. Abbott's office asked for information about three companies who have publicly complained about Google, according to blog post by Don Harrison, the company's deputy general counsel. Harrison linked each of the companies to Microsoft."
wow, you really need to stop eating gov't propaganda that much and stop assuming things about people you don't know.
Gov't is the actual reasons for having monopolies, except for DeBeers diamond cartel all monopolies outside of niche markets are gov't creations and are supported by gov't taxes, subsidies, regulations, bailouts, etc.
Event the actual antitrust law itself was first created and used for reasons that had nothing to do with monopoly power in the market and was a retaliation against a company wielding political power. Standard Oil wasn't a monopoly by the time it was broken up and even Standard Oil was helped by gov't ties to become what it was, though it was providing services at acceptable to then market prices. When it stopped, multiple competitors appeared.
cheers.
You can't handle the truth.
Sure there is. They're pulling an underhanded scam to waste public resources doing their dirty work for them. The mob might use bloodier tactics but at least they buy their own bullets.
"Once again Microsoft chooses to litigate instead of innovate."
A lesson they learned from Sun, IBM, Oracle, AOL and the other competitors who lobbied for the antitrust action against them.
Customers too.
Oh, and from ignoring both.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Standard Oil had six competitors by the time it was broken up, their numbers and size was growing, however you should look at all the monopolies that gov't DID create, all of them starting from phone and energy companies, proceeding to food and banks and insurance and transportation. Bailing out monopolies with borrowed/printed/SS money, stimulating monopolies with 0% interest rates, creating monopolies in military industrial complex.
Gov't has done more harm to economy than any other entity ever, and now the economy is suffering because of gov't intervention. I know it's not the 'wisdom' here, it's unpopular and considered to be a troll etc.etc.etc. Good.
When the US gov't collapses the dollar after printing it to buy back all the t-bills that creditors will be dumping, and then US economy will be destroyed because nobody will be trading with US and US has no production capacity to maintain its own standard of living and there will be riots and shortages, and gov't will implement a policy that is any dictator's wet dream and any human right activist's worst nightmare, the point made here just may be finally understood, or maybe not, people are not really that bright at figuring out what has just happened, less so figuring out what is happening and what is about to happen.
You can't handle the truth.
If the word "Microsoft" is involved, Groklaw should always be disregarded as a credible source. Groklaw is on a bigger smear campaign against Microsoft than any Microsoft have ever been accused of.
And even on Groklaw, they're grasping at straws to somehow make "uses the same law firm" into "funding the evil smear campaign against Google". Gimme a break.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".