<i>&gt;But Yahoo has their own search engine.</i><p>No they don&#x27;t. They&#x27;re a front-end for Bing search (at least until 2019 and in everywhere but Japan, which IIRC is a front-end for Google), but that&#x27;s being nitpicky. :)<p>FWIW I&#x27;ve always had an issue with companies being punished for simply being better than alternatives. That includes Microsoft&#x27;s advertising IE, even if IE at the time wasn&#x27;t the best browser. People were free to use IE to download a better browser, so I never saw the issue with providing IE as a default. Linux was free, they were free to buy a computer, set it up themselves, and install Linux on it. The fact that they weren&#x27;t choosing to do so should not result in Microsoft being punished.<p>However my beliefs and precedent set by previous law (even if it isn&#x27;t legal precedent?) is still enough to have Google play it cautiously. Especially since there has been threat of such lawsuits if they were caught playing with their search results to advertise themselves and &quot;kill off&quot; competitors.