Lawyers who prosecuted Microsoft over alleged antitrust violations in the late 1990s saw some familiar tactics in the Justice Department’s complaint against Google filed Tuesday.
But it’s far from a carbon copy of the complaint, according to five lawyers involved in the Microsoft case interviewed by CNBC.
The DOJ cited its landmark antitrust case against Microsoft on page five of its complaint against Google, which was filed in the same federal district court that ruled favorably for the government. The suit is not the sprawling indictment of Google’s search and advertising businesses that some had expected.