The search giant's battle over an embedded search engine in a Microsoft browser is a case of Google having a double standard, employees of Microsoft and Yahoo say.High-profile employees at Microsoft and Yahoo say rival Google's complaints to authorities about a supposed unfair Microsoft practice is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
These are relatively new voices to the debate, raging in the blogosphere and elsewhere, that have the potential to further shape the outcome of the Google complaints to U.S. and European officials.
The rhetorical salvos result from Google's reported complaints about the new Internet Explorer browser, version 7, from Microsoft, which comes with an embedded Microsoft search engine.
The problem, Google says, is that Microsoft makes it very difficult to swap out this search engine for one from a rival.
Especially for inexperienced Internet users, that's tantamount to unfairly locking a search engine to the browser.
Even some experienced users might find it difficult to do so, given the four-step process to swap out Microsoft's search engine for one of users' own choosing.
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"We don't think it's right for Microsoft to just set the default," Marissa Meyer, Google vice president for search products, told The New York Times. "We believe users should choose."
Now rivals Yahoo, of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash., are striking back at Google with a similar theme: that Google has a double standard.
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