EU to Investigate Google for Antitrust; Microsoft Giggles in the Background

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The EU has just opened an investigation into Google's possible monopoly in Europe, based on the claims of three companies who accuse Google of intentionally anticompetitive policies in its search and advertising. The EU is usually the site for this kind of debate, having also just forced Microsoft into offering a choice of browser with Windows rather than its own Internet Explorer. Interestingly, Microsoft is tangentially involved in this current Google investigation.

Two of the three...