Brussels - taking over the role of Hunter to hunted for years, Microsoft Corp. filed an antitrust action against rival Google Inc., with the same European authorities, the last ten years a fine Microsoft billions of dollars.
Getty Images Microsoft submitted, European regulators an antitrust complaint about Google dominance of the online search and advertising.
Microsoft submitted European regulators one antitrust complaint about Google dominance of the online search and advertising, claims that Google is the access to content on Microsoft mobile phones walling. Ben Pimentel and Jen Valentino-DeVries have information.The Microsoft complaint - his first ever, the company's top lawyer says - is rich in symbolism over how far the high tides have moved in a decade, and how the fight is fought to the lucrative Internet search market.
"After more than a decade wear take the shoe on the other foot not something with the European Commission, the submission of a formal antitrust complaint we light", wrote Brad Smith Microsoft's General Counsel, in a blog post outlining the software giant concerns.
Microsoft, whose Windows-Monopol was a target of the antitrust regulators, trying to make Google dominance of the online search and advertising in question now. In Europe, Google's market share of Web search is up to 95%, says Mr. Smith. In the United States, Google treated about two-thirds of the searches.
A small Posse company - a Microsoft subsidiary, supported by a Microsoft-funded trade group - abuse of dominance has claims against Google in Europe, and the European Commission already has an open investigation.
As a practical matter, a fresh claim that Microsoft complaint deals already filled against Google: Microsoft says Microsoft Search and mobile products blocked his rivals by fully on the access to information about videos, thus enabling Google and mobile applications for the Android software to better video search results as Microsoft Bing engine or your Windows phone AppsGoogle YouTube page to return.
"We are not surprised that Microsoft has done this, because one of their daughters was one of the original complainants," a Google spokesman says. "For our part we continue the case with the European Commission discuss and we look forward, for anyone explain how our business works."
The Google spokesman rejected, discuss the specifics of Microsoft's claims, instead, on a previous statement in the Google said that it believes that it is "in line with the European competition law."
The European Commission, the European Union Executive Body, started an informal investigation of Google's behavior in November 2010. In February of this year it released, that it had received complaints about Google.
They came from Ciao, a Microsoft subsidiary in Germany; Foundem.co.UK, a price comparison website in the UK; and ejustice.fr, a French website for legal queries.
Microsoft Dwarfs all of them. Participation means the Commission probably get more evidence to views, and it will certainly increase the profile and the pressure of the case.
A Microsoft spokesman declined, filed with the EU supervisory authorities with the European supervisory authorities filed release a copy of the complaint. Many of the claims in the company's blog post before was triggered by others.
"Pattern of actions that has made Google, hide to his dominance in the markets for online search and search advertising." describes the submission says in his blog post late Wednesday, Microsoft's Mr.. Smith
And large, says Mr.. Smith, that Google has attempted to "access to information" so that his own search engine the best job it indexing and sell map, however, takes place.
Google business model says "increasingly about Director" surfer to Google services, such as maps and video, Becket McGrath of the law firm of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in London. "If, unreasonable in the legal sense is an interesting question, which addresses still wouldn't yet."
"Be the question should not, it makes life difficult for Microsoft?" Mr McGrath says, but "it is a real danger that Microsoft would be excluded?"
Microsoft's blogpost refers to a well-worn dispute between Google and book publishers in the United States access to digitized books.
You mentioned also complaints of niche search sites that Google penalizes them wrong.
Also, Microsoft claims that Google exclusivity contracts with website operators that prevent this operator to search the results of third-party.
These accusations have previously been announced in November by the Commission; at the time a Google spokesperson said, the company exclusivity contracts and that impose quite a few exclusive contracts existed but had ended years ago.
The latest claim is Microsoft claim that Google limits the ability of Microsoft Bing search engine and your Windows Mobile phone applications to find and back links to YouTube videos.
Microsoft explain not, exactly as it believes that Bing has been blocked by YouTube. Mr. Smith's post says Google in 2010 and this year "refused to allow" the Windows phone app access of to so-called metadata about YouTube videos, Google Android phones and Apple Inc. iPhone are allowed, do something Mr.. Smith says.
A Google spokesman declined to discuss how YouTube videos accessible by search engines, or whether Google search programs or mobile applications have privileged access.
Microsoft's complaint about YouTube could fall into a number of legal theories. EU anti-trust law requires that companies that dominate their markets for special care compared to smaller competitors - in particular, usually they can not field by effective competition.
The law very broadly constructed this responsibility and are regulators broad authority to intervene to enforce it.
In a moment of irony, that practically's has escaped no one in Brussels, it was to the pursuit of the EU ten years, which according to Microsoft a court decision solvent cementing this flexibility led.
Microsoft rival of Sun Microsystems information that Sun computers need access to certain server Microsoft accused had been. The EU said in the year 2004, Microsoft have to turn it over, the Sun machines with its ubiquitous products fair competition to to occur. Microsoft fought bitterly, but an EU Court decided against the software giant in 2007, and Microsoft took.
Write to Charles trout charles.forelle@wsj.com
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