Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Jun 2007 19:12 UTC, submitted by Dale Smoker
Google lost its recent antitrust battle with Microsoft on Tuesday when a US District Court judge overseeing latter company's antitrust settlement declined to accept Internet search giant's request to extend the US government oversight of Microsoft's antitrust efforts. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who was scheduled to review the report in a hearing on June 26, in her ruling, refused to consider Google's petition to have the agreement extended beyond November, when major parts of it expire.
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They didn't completely lose, since Microsoft agreed to make changes to the search subsystem last week in order to alleviate Google's concerns. The fact that they agreed to do this meant that there were indeed some issues there.
Basically, the judge said that she trusted the government attorneys' evaluation that the changes proposed by Microsoft last week did indeed solve the issues raised by Google. The fact that Google pressed its case forward even after those changes is in fact common legal practice (i.e. leveraging your gains in order to obtain more), and in itself isn't anything out of the ordinary. If the positions had been reversed, Microsoft would have acted the same way.
So, all in all, Google managed to get part of what it wanted, and as such one cannot honestly say that this was a waste of time for them. It was a minor legal skirmish, which ended in a slight advantage for Google.