The CMA has launched an investigation into Google's services to ensure fair competition and consumer protection.

Britain's competition watchdog said Tuesday that it's opening a formal antitrust investigation into Google's search and search advertising business.

The Competition and Markets Authority said it was launching its first strategic market status designation investigation.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Google’s search services under new digital market rules. The CMA aims to determine if Google’s search and search advertising services should be designated with strategic market status (SMS).

A British probe into Google has opened by a watchdog agency as its first ivestigation under a new law over Google's search and advertising services on some European consumers.

The Competition and Markets Authority — the U.K.’s antitrust watchdog — is wasting no time in lodging its first official investigation of 2025 under its

Google’s online search empire faces is being targeted with a fresh probe under the United Kingdom’s sweeping new online competition law, officials announced on Tuesday.

Britain’s competition watchdog says it’s investigating Google’s search ad business, adding to global scrutiny that the U.S. tech giant is facing

It will be the first investigation under a new digital markets competition regime that could force the company to change its conduct.

The tech giant accounts for 90% of web searches in the UK - the regulator will probe whether that harms consumers and rivals.

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