BRUSSELS – Microsoft Corp. escalated its attack on Google Inc. by complaining to European regulators Thursday that its fiercest rival is an Internet bully that abuses its dominance of online search and advertising.
The allegations against Google crystallize the piecemeal gripes that Microsoft has been making about Google’s business practices for the past few years. It’s also an ironic twist for Microsoft, whose control over how software operates on most personal computers has made it a frequent target of the types of complaints it’s now making against Google.
This marks the first time that Microsoft has lodged a formal antitrust complaint with a government agency against one of its own rivals.
In doing so, Microsoft hopes to encourage the European Commission to dig deeper into an investigation opened four months ago into Google’s business practices.
The European inquiry was spurred by complaints made by several smaller websites. They contended Google was unfairly burying them
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