So Google this week have been complaining about how Microsoft has been helping and pushing a few companies in Europe to complain to the EC about Google and start an anti-trust investigation into the company. I think my view on the matter can be easily summed up in this tweet I posted earlier:

Heh, Google are complaining about MS helping others in EU anti-trust case; Google were happy to help Opera in EU browser bundling case.

I am not a fan of the EC which seems to think it is the be-all-and-end-all of international policing of any giant company with lots of money (Microsoft, Intel and now Google) but I also dislike the fact Google is moaning about Microsoft with regards the investigation. I don’t know what Google expect to happen when they seem to be overlooking people’s privacy and could well be using their search engine weight to stop some likely competitors from appearing high up in the search listing.

Had it not been for @RobMargel, who tweeted to remind me, I might have forgotten that Google “do no evil”. It will be interesting to see what the EC make of their initial Google investigation.