"The CMA confirmed that Google dominates general search and advertising, giving it a strategic position in the UK market where it handles over 90% of searches. The designation includes AI-based features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode. However, it excludes Google's Gemini AI assistant, although the CMA will continue to review this as the market evolves. CMA Executive Director for Digital Markets Will Hayter emphasized that the designation enables the CMA to pursue proportionate interventions to maintain open competition."
"In April, the UK filed a 5 billion pounds ($6.6 billion) class-action lawsuit against Google, for allegedly exploiting its dominant position in online search to inflate ad prices and suppress competition. The suit alleges that Google pre-installed its search engine and Chrome browser on Android devices and paid Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to make Google the default search engine on iPhones, giving its own advertising services an unfair advantage."
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority designated Alphabet's Google with strategic market status in general search and advertising services after confirming legal criteria were met. The CMA found Google dominates general search and advertising, handling over 90% of searches and including AI-based features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode, while excluding Gemini AI assistant for now. The CMA launched an investigation on Jan. 14 following the new digital markets competition regime on Jan. 1, collecting feedback from over 80 stakeholders since the June proposal. The designation enables proportionate interventions to preserve open competition amid global regulatory scrutiny and a UK £5 billion class-action alleging anticompetitive conduct involving pre-installations and default search agreements.
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