Google Asks For Formal Role In Microsoft Anti-Trust Dispute

By Danny Sullivan

Published: July 3, 2007 at 1:45 pm

New
Google filing presses for role in Microsoft case from the Seattle PI
covers how Google has now formally applied for a direct role to participate in
how a judge evaluates whether Microsoft’s desktop search in the Vista operating
system violates an anti-trust agreement.

In the last installment of this saga, the judge
had ruled that she
was satisfied with changes that Microsoft proposes to make to how desktop search
operates and that if Google disagreed, it needed to work through the US Justice
Department and various state attorneys that are party to the Microsoft
anti-trust settlement.

Google would prefer to directly address the court. In particular, it wants to
prevent the anti-trust settlement from expiring this November, to ensure the
proposed changes to desktop search are fully in place. This week’s

filing (PDF file) is intended to win over a place at the table from the
judge.

Stay tuned.

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Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.