Google has its eye on Vista search

Google executives downplayed their legendary battle with Microsoft but said they were keeping an eye on their larger rival’s plans for embedding Web search functionality into Vista, its delayed next-generation operating system.

Asked during an executive question-and-answer session here at Google Press Day about the company’s concerns about Vista, co-founder Sergey Brin said Wednesday that Microsoft had behaved anti-competitively in the past when the Netscape browser was giving Internet Explorer stiff competition in the mid-1990s.

"We just see the history of that company behaving anti-competitively and...not playing fair," he said. "So I think we want to...look at the areas where that power can be abused." In general though, Google is too busy creating new products and services to pay much attention to what Microsoft is doing, executives said.

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