An Ohio state court judge on Wednesday dismissed a low-profile antitrust lawsuit launched against Google by a specialized shopping search engine called myTriggers.com, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The court said that myTriggers.com had failed to provide enough evidence in its case to prove that Google had blackballed the firm.
The case is noteworthy, as the Journal points out, because the tiny firm’s lawyer is Microsoft’s chief antitrust lawyer Charles “Rick” Rule of the firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He’s also representing Tradecomet.com in another similar suit against Google.
The two cases are part of a string of lawsuits and antitrust investigations that have been launched against Google in the past year.
Google believes that Microsoft is orchestrating many of these initiatives, but Microsoft is denying any involvement.
Microsoft is, however, part of a travel search engine coalition called FairSearch that has been ratcheting up the lobbying against Google both in Washington, D.C. and on television.
The Federal Trade Commission has subpoenaed Google in an antitrust investigation, and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is scheduled to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee at the end of this month.
