A Peek Behind the Curtain of the Texas Antitrust Complaints against Google – Updated 3Xs

“I guess you heard that the Texas attorney general has opened an
investigation into antitrust complaints against Google, complaints
lodged by Foundem, SourceTool, and myTriggers.com. Them again?
Their complaints are not new. Here’s Google’s blog post about
it.

“And likely you heard about that utterly tasteless ad in Times
Square from Consumer Watchdog, a cartoon of a creepy looking Eric
Schmidt handing ice cream to children and asking for their
secrets.

“I think I can explain both events, because they are part of one
campaign. Or as American Lawyer describes [PDF] the lawyers behind
this, they are on a crusade against Google. The article is titled
“The Google-Slayers”. Guess who the lawyers on this crusade have as
a client? Microsoft. They handle Microsoft’s antitrust work. Guess
who sent the first complainant to these lawyers, which led to this
crusade? Microsoft. The jumping off point.

“So. A crusade to destroy Google. By folks who count Microsoft
as an important client, with new clients, at least one of them
directly referred to the “crusaders” by Microsoft and the rest now
under their umbrella. My stars, gentlemen. Where is your
subtlety?”

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