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Frustrated "Microsoft" complains about "Google"
by Zivka Deleva

Three companies complain about the antitrust elements of “Google”, and that’s why they informed the European Commission. Though there still isn’t an official investigation, and the Commission doesn’t want to come out with the names of the companies, “Google” already knows who are its “enemies”. We are talking about British price comparison site “Foundem”, French legal search engine “eJustice.fr” and “Microsoft”-owned “Ciao” from “Bing”. These companies are concerned about the way the Internet giant’ search engine works and the way it manages with the digit! al advertising. They complain that “Google” lies about the results of competitor sites when it makes rankings. “Google” thinks that these search engines are simply not very good. According to “Google”, the company hasn’t done anything wrong. The Commission has questioned “Google” these days. “We are confident that our business operates in the interests of users and partners, as well as in line with European competition law. We are the first to admit that our search is not perfect, but this is due to the technical difficulties of compiling accurate rankings for millions of results in just a few milliseconds” - wrote Google's senior counsel for competition, Julia Holtz. This complainants are pretty strange, but everyone knows that all of them belong to one company – “Microsoft”!For the first time “Google” is been a target for “abuse of dominant position” cl! ause. It is not strange that other companies are so willing to! ruin &# 8220;Google”, when even small children know that it is the world’s leading search engine. “Google” owns 70 percent search market share in the United States, but internationally that number is about 90%. This is not the first time that “Google” is under an investigation. It happened with the Book project. “People are generally frustrated that Google has been so successful and so powerful. The EU has been interested in addressing Google’s market position and this gives it an opportunity to do so and to address all these frustrations and concerns that triggered these multiple complaints.”, sais Greg Sterling, an analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence in San Francisco.

by Zivka Deleva for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

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