Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company's rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government's landmark antitrust trial against Google's parent company, Alphabet. The Justice Department alleges Google has abused the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine to throttle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers, allegations that echo a similar case brought against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine::Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing. Nadella testified in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom as part of the government’s landmark antitrust trial against Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The Justice Department alleges Google has abused the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine to throttle competition and innovation at the expense of consumers, allegations that echo a similar case brought against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

    • @L3s@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Thanks for letting me know! Is it reposting stuff that it already has posted, or things that others have posted?

      Not finding duplicates, but can dig in a little more after work.

  • TAGEnglish
    39•1 year ago

    Nadella said Google’s dominance was due to agreements that made it the default browser on smartphones and computers.

    Google gained dominance in the early 2000s when the dominant platform was the smart phone Windows computer, which had a default browser of Google Chrome Internet Explorer and a default search engine of Google MSN search.

    • @Remavas@programming.devEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Maybe if they actually made them better compared to the then competition, this could’ve turned out differently; mind you, it would still be as bad, because Microsoft, but hey, different nonetheless.

  • Gianmarco GargiuloEnglish
    19•1 year ago

    The next article will be “Google CEO says unfair practices by Microsoft led to its dominance in the desktop OS space.”

  • @Chefdano3@lemm.eeEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    Oh fuck off Microsoft. Nobody wants to hear that shit from you. If you had your way our fucking cars would be powered by edge, and would tell us to play raid shadow legends every time we turned it on.

  • @foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    Okay Microsoft. Good thing your business track record includes 0 unfair practices in your history.

  • @frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
    23•1 year ago

    Besides the hypocrisy, Google won search by having the best idea. There’s a reason we make jokes about Altavista and Ask Jeeves.

    Google then used their position on search to take over a hundred other markets. That’s the real problem, but that’s not the argument being made here.

  • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19•1 year ago

    That’s rich coming from the company that tries to force new windows operating systems on people, and installs its own boot loader when running Linux partitions.

  • @DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22•1 year ago

    How about shutting up until Windows no longer forces you to use Edge and Bing without the option to change or remove them.