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Microsoft files a competition complaint against Google with the EC
SOFTWARE GIANT Microsoft is filing a complaint with the European Commission (EC) after publicly questioning Google's competitive practices.
Microsoft said it was "concerned" about a "pattern of conduct aimed at stopping anyone else from creating a competitive alternative".
The complaint refers mainly to Google's search engine, which has a 95 per cent market share in Europe, according to the EC's figures. Microsoft claims that Bing, which it said it has poured a lot of money into, is being artificially held back by Google.
The Vole alleges that Google's acquisition of Youtube in 2006 led to a situation where Google restricted rival search engines from properly accessing video search results, ensuring that users stuck with Google's search engine over Bing and Yahoo.
It accuses Google of a number of other anti-competitive practices, including claims that Google is blocking Youtube from working properly on Windows Phone 7 and the Iphone, that Google tried to secure book deals that would mean book searches would be restricted to its own search engine, restrictions to interoperability of advertising data with competing services, contractual blocks to rival website search boxes, and higher costs for ad placements for direct rivals.
Microsoft acknowledged that it has been the subject of similar allegations to the EC in the past, but said that this is the first time it has resorted to filing a complaint, which it does not take lightly. It said that Google should have the freedom to develop new products and services, but that it should not be allowed to pursue practices that restrict others' freedom to compete with it. µ
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Get your facts right before rehashing Fandroid BS
As I see it.
Bing is holding bing back. Not Google. I go to google, I know I'll find what I want by the time I hit the third page of results. I rarely got that from Bing. IMHO Bing is a waste of server space.
Want a bigger market share MS? Do a better job.
Hmmm.. youtube blocking the bing-bots is it? TOO BAD! Bots=bandwidth=BIG BUCKS. Not to mention if the youtube servers are dealing with large numbers of Bing or other bots, they have less bandwidth available to do their job of supplying the video I'm trying to watch. I don't even use Google when I want to search for a video. I go to YouTube and search there for it.
Google blocking Youtube from working on iPhone and Win-mobile-7 devices? NO.. It's the lack of proper flash support on those devices causing that problem. Once again.. FIX YOUR OWN HOUSE before blaming someone else for your troubles.
ROFL!! So MS thinks that because Google makes deals with publishers that cost Google $$$ they (MS) should have free access to the materials? Too funny.
This entire bit is starting to make me believe that to stop Bing from gathering Google's search results directly, they banished MS's bots from the google servers. (Something I did long ago when investigating why my site was soo slow I found a large number of MSN-bots crawling all over the place. Add ip range to router block list, site all back to normal. Oops there's another site Bing don't know about)
Awww too bad MS guess you'll have to start finding the info the old fashioned way. ACTUALLY (Page by page) WORK FOR IT!
Worst case of pot calling kettle black I've seen yet...