By Muvija M and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Google could be forced to change its search operations in the UK after it became the first company subject to new powers from Britain's competition regulator to tackle the dominance of Big Tech. Competition regulators have long had Alphabet-owned Google in their sights and Britain's landmark ruling on Friday designating Google as having strategic market status in online search, gives the UK's regulator more power to step in. "We have found that Google maintains a strategic position in the search and search advertising sector – with more than 90% of searches in the UK taking place on its platform," the Competition and Markets Authority's Executive Director for Digital Markets Will Hayter said. POSSIBLE INTERVENTIONS The CMA's move enables it to
Google faces stricter regulation in UK over search dominance

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