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Glenn Manishin, a Washington antitrust lawyer who represented plaintiffs in the Microsoft antitrust case, said a case against Google would be “uncharted” legal territory, and markedly different from the Microsoft case. “There’s a fundamental difference between an operating system which has the ability and technology to exclude rivals from the platform, and Internet search or search advertising,” he said.

“There’s nothing locking users into using Google either for search or for advertising… it’s not a single highway to get to where you’re going. Windows was, because it was on 95 percent of PCs. Other companies can and do enter the search market.” Manishin said antitrust law is aimed at protecting consumers, not rival companies. He said the FTC could pursue Google administratively for “unfair competition,” but added legal standards are vague and the agency has never won such a case. “If you ask for the government to intervene, you don’t know what’s going to happen,” the attorney said. “The government may decide it will be the arbiter of what’s fair and unfair, and it may be a slippery slope toward government regulation.”