June Deen

Today the US DOJ showed it has no case against Google. Sitting in the courtroom as DOJ deposed Google CEO Sundar Pichai, we saw the "smoking gun" of the entire case against Google is a meeting summary from 2007!! about Microsoft setting the default on IE7 to Microsoft search?!! First, to put the time in perspective, in 2007: - the iPhone (it was the first) was just released. - George W Bush was still president and - Avril Levine was at the top of the charts. Apple's market share had reached a whopping 4.02% (meaning Microsoft and Windows still had well above 80% marketshare) Second, the concern being discussed. Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) was going to be the first Microsoft web browser with a unified address and search bar. Prior to this users had to install search apps into IE6 -- such as Altavista, Yahoo, and Google. IE7, like Edge is today, is the default web browser on Windows. The concern from Google was that Microsoft was going to wipe out prior user search choices by removing the search apps and make the default Microsoft Search, despite the fact that it was far from the user preferred choice. (this would be like every time Chrome or our phones updated all our defaults were reset) So of course Google was concerned. And they talked about ways to stop Microsoft's override of consumer choices. It's sad to think that our government is wasting away our tax dollars on this trial -- especially when we all saw the DOJ has nothing more than a pair of twos. At the same time our DOJ is throwing attorneys and tax dollars into a quixotic battle with Google we have so many crimes not getting prosecuted. It's clear that the DOJ has too much taxpayer money if it can waste it on this loser lawsuit. Time for Congress to use the power of the purse.