{"id":225,"date":"2006-05-02T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/05\/02\/schmidts-google-goes-to-authorities-about-msn\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T12:17:09","slug":"schmidts-google-goes-to-authorities-about-msn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/05\/02\/schmidts-google-goes-to-authorities-about-msn\/","title":{"rendered":"Schmidt&#8217;s Google Goes To Authorities About MSN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google, led by Chief Executive Eric <strong>Schmidt<\/strong>, seems to be feeling the heat already from the impending update of <strong>Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer<\/strong>, the Web browser which is used by 85% of the world&#8217;s PCs and which is set to be released with Windows Vista later this year as an updated version 7. <\/p>\n<p>IE 7, it appears, could put a dent in <strong>Google&#8217;s  <\/strong>lucrative grip on the search market thanks to a slim white search box located in the browser&#8217;s top right hand corner. Google&#8217;s concern is that the integrated search tool points users towards <strong>Microsoft&#8217;s <\/strong>MSN search engine, leaving them less likely to stumble across Google&#8217;s all-important ads. <\/p>\n<p>The complaint has initially prompted some to chortle at what looks to be a case of the p<em>ot calling the kettle black<\/em>&#8211;Google happens to have its own search tool integrated into Microsoft&#8217;s rival web browsers <strong>Firefox and Opera.<\/strong> But Google is deadly serious. A spokesman for the search giant, Steve Langdon, said that the company had approached the <strong>U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission <\/strong>about the issue, though no formal complaint had been filed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2006\/05\/01\/google-microsoft-msn-cx_po_0501autofacescan12.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, led by Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, seems to be feeling the heat already from the impending update of Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer, the Web browser which is used by 85% of the world&#8217;s PCs and which is set to be released with Windows Vista later this year as an updated version 7. IE 7, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167,3,12],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-microsoft","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}