From the Share Our Pain dept.:
A lawyer for Microsoft confirmed that the software giant told the US Department of Justice and the European Commission how Google’s business practices may be harming publishers, advertisers and competition in search and online advertising.

Dave Heiner, vice president and deputy general counsel at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post on 26 Feb. that in meeting with government agencies to discuss its recently approved search deal with Yahoo, Microsoft officials explained how Google has tilted the mechanics of the search advertising business in its favor.

“As you might expect, the competition officials asked us a lot of questions about competition with Google—since that is the focus of the partnership,” Heiner wrote. “We told them what we know about how Google is doing business. A lot of that entails explaining the search advertising business, which is complex. Some of that inevitably gets into Google practices that may be harming publishers, advertisers and competition in search and online advertising.”

eweekeurope.co.uk