Comment on Microsoft looks to be retreating from EU antitrust fight against Google

(credit: Shutterstock) Microsoft-backed lobby group ICOMP's long-running fight against Google's search dominance in the European Union has collapsed, amid accusations that its members have been silenced. Ars has learned that members including UK-based price comparison site Foundem—the original complainant in the antitrust case against Google—resigned from ICOMP, after Microsoft backed away from what had been a dogged campaign against its search rival in Europe.