After Google Antitrust Loss, Some at Microsoft See an Opening for Bing

As Google faces repercussions from a landmark federal ruling declaring its search engine an illegal monopoly, Microsoft, another dominant tech firm, stands to benefit at Google's expense.

After the ruling, several senior managers at Microsoft’s Bing search engine privately voiced their excitement at the possibility that Bing could replace Google as the default search provider for Apple. Judge Amit Mehta on Monday said Google’s deals to be the default search service on web browsers owned by companies such as Apple—in exchange for a substantial share of Google’s search advertising revenue—were illegal because they helped it maintain a monopoly.