DoJ laughs Google out of court

THE LONG time enema of Microsoft, the Department of Justice will not back Google's anti-trust complaint against the software giant.

Google has been moaning that Vole has been using its power as a monopoly to squash its operation by arranging the search engine default settings on the new Internet Exploder in alphabetical order.

It thinks that the default settings should be set up to put the most popular search engine, in other words Google, at the top.

However even though the DoJ has not been above writing stiff letters of complaint to Vole in the past over any action it might considered whiffed of anti-trust, it seems that it thinks that this time there is no case to answer.

The Justice Department, in a court document released late Friday, said it and other plaintiffs in the US government's antitrust case against Microsoft have finished their look at the IE search feature and found there was nothing wrong with it.

In fact the DoJ thought that IE 7, now in beta, made it easy for users to change the default search engine within the browser. More here. µ