DOJ won't pursue complaints about IE search box

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The U.S. Department of Justice will not pursue complaints about Microsoft's decision to include search functionality in version 7 of its Internet Explorer browser, despite concerns raised by search competitor Google Inc., the DOJ said in a court filing.

The DOJ, in a court document released late Friday, said it and other plaintiffs in the U.S. government's antitrust case against Microsoft have finished their look at the IE search feature, which can default to Microsoft's own MSN Search feature in some cases.