Google may soon have to alter how its search engine functions in the UK, after becoming the first company to face action under new powers granted to Britain’s competition regulator aimed at curbing 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 intervene

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