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Google's UK 'strategic market status' for search confirmed by antitrust watchdog

By Simon Zekaria ( October 10, 2025, 11:23 GMT | Insight) -- Google has seen its search and search advertising activities formally designated by the UK antitrust regulator as having "strategic market status," exposing it to intensified enforcement and operational risk. The designation was proposed earlier this year under the UK's new bespoke digital markets regime, and the Competition and Markets Authority has set out a "roadmap" of potential changes it could impose on Google's business.Google has seen its search and search advertising activities formally designated by the UK antitrust regulator as having "strategic market status" and therefore subject to the highest level of digital markets regulation.  ...

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