Summary: Microsoft-owned advertising firm stirs up a riot against Google along with the usual publishers that Microsoft has encouraged to sue Google for years

MICROSOFT has already had Google sued in all sorts of way, usually by encouraging other parties to do so. We have already given some examples in:

• Microsoft is Still Attacking Google via Publishers
• More Antitrust Pressure for Yahoo!-Microsoft, Google Blocked by MSDOJ
• Microsoft, Google Sued; Microsoft Funds Legal Action Against Google
• Who's Bugging Google and Apple? (Updatedx2)
• Lobby Which Google Said Was in Microsoft's Pocket Wants Google's Street View Shut Down
• Microsoft and Politics (Against Google)

There are several more posts on the subject, several of which are interlinked.

This time it's a lot more blatant. From The Register:

Google has been hit with a barrage of anti-trust complaints in Germany, with two publisher groups, a mapping firm and a Microsoft-owned ad firm launching an enveloping movement on the ad broker and sometime search firm.

The headline, by the way, is "Microsoft, German publishers hit Google with anti-trust suits." ⬆

"...Microsoft wished to promote SCO and its pending lawsuit against IBM and the Linux operating system. But Microsoft did not want to be seen as attacking IBM or Linux."

--Larry Goldfarb, Baystar, key investor in SCO