French antitrust agency probing Microsoft over Bing access
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FILE PHOTO: Microsoft Corp's Bing search engine is seen on a computer in this illustration picture taken January 24, 2019. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo
PARIS (Reuters) -France's antitrust agency is investigating Microsoft over concerns that it is degrading the quality of results when smaller rivals pay to use Bing technology in their own search-engine products.
"We are fully cooperating with the Autorite's investigation," a Microsoft spokesperson said, referring to the regulator's French name.
Bloomberg reported the investigation earlier on Monday. Microsoft, though not a major player in the general market, is a leader in the search-engine syndication sector.
The competition authority declined to comment.
The investigation could yield formal charges and a fine against the U.S. tech giant.
(Reporting by Makini Brice in Paris and Foo Yun Chee in BrusselsEditing by Tomasz Janowski)
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