NHN, the country’s leading search engine, has alleged that Google under its marketing partnership has pressurized local phone manufacturers to exclude web search applications made by its competitors. 
 
NHN together with Daum Communication has lodged a petition with the country’s Fair Trade Commission. They have claimed that Google has been doing unfair business by limiting their access to smart phones, using the Android operating system, by pressuring smart phone manufacturer and operators to not to preload their applications. Following the incident, the Fair trade Commission has been asked to keep a check upon Google’s business practices in Korea.    
 
While defending itself, Google said that Android is an open platform and companies it partners with "are free to decide which applications and services to include on their Android phones".
 
It has come to light that last month Microsoft also filed a complaint against Google with European Commission regulators about its dominance of the European search market.
 
A market analysis has reported that Google’s mobile search market share hit 20 percent last year while its fixed-line presence remains small, at about 2 percent. NHN and Daum together control about 90 percent of web searches on personal computers in the country.
 
It is believed that the petition will result in increased global inspection of Google’s businesses. As its business is dominating the global search market, its Android operating system is likely to become the world’s best-selling smart phone system this year.