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Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) are Big Tattle Tales!

March 4, 2010 10:37 am

So, we are to believe that no one is tipping off the Feds as to the potential bad doings of  either Microsoft (MSFT) or Google (GOOG). We would not put anything past Steve Balmer and surely Google has their own axes to grind.

Looking at the latest trend, we have a good idea who is the one making the noise….

From WSJ.com

Seeking $335,000 in unpaid advertising bills, Google Inc. filed suit against a small Internet site in Ohio in October. The complaint was so routine it was just two sentences long.

Google never expected the response it got. Last month, the small Internet site countered with a 24-page antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the search-engine giant of a litany of monopolistic abuses.

But what really caught Google’s attention was the Internet site’s legal counsel: It was Charles “Rick” Rule, long the chief outside counsel on competition issues for Google archrival Microsoft Corp.

“My reaction was, ‘What the heck is this?’ ” …

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3 Responses to “Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) are Big Tattle Tales!”

  1. chris on March 4th, 2010 4:25 pm

    It serves Google right. I seem to recall that Microsoft faced antitrust issues for seeming to control a certain section of the market.
    Is there any reason why Google shouldn't as well?

  2. Max on March 5th, 2010 5:28 am

    Yes: it's not illegal to hold a dominant market position; it's only illegal to abuse it.

  3. David on March 9th, 2010 11:20 pm

    "Do No Evil" seems oblivious that it's innovation: 'intentional advertising', is costing the life of US newspapers which depended upon display advertising. Our society will fail without an aggressive and functioning press sector, which now has no funding, thanks to Google.
    Effective businesses know to share the wealth…. thus building support by business partners.
    Will Google learn?

    Yet it is amusing in the extreme to see Microsoft sue anybody for monopolistic practices.

    Good graph

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