The US technology firm on Thursday filed the complaint to the European commission, which announced a formal investigation into Google in November, adding significant weight to the chorus of opposition which has seen complaints to Brussels from mainly small internet sites such as price comparison firm Foundem and Microsoft-owned firm Ciao.
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Smith added that as "troubling" as the competitive landscape is in the US market "it is worse in Europe". with Google controlling up to 95% of the search market. The company goes on to outline a number of examples of a "pattern of actions" that it claims Google has taken to "entrench its dominance in the markets for online search and search advertising to the detriment of European consumers".
Microsoft alleges that these anti-competitive practices include stopping its search engine, called Bing, from indexing content on Google-owned YouTube; blocking Microsoft Windows smartphones from "operating properly" with YouTube; blocking access to content owned by book publishers; and limiting the flow of ad campaign information back to advertisers, making it more expensive to run ads with rivals.
