The UK CMA opens an investigation into whether Google has “strategic market status” in search and how it impacts consumers, advertisers, publishers, and rivals
LONDON — Britain's competition watchdog on Tuesday said that it's opening a formal antitrust investigation into Google's search and search advertising services.
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Discussion
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NMA CEO @OwenMeredithNMA responds to today's announcement that Google Search is the @CMAgovUK's first strategic market status designation investigation under the new digital markets competition regime. Read his quote below👇 [image]
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@owenmeredithnma
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This is very welcome news from @CMAgovUK today, and the first steps towards delivering on the promise of the new Digital Markets legislation to level the playing field between publishers and Google https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
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If Google didn't have strategic market status in search and search advertising, who would have that status in any field? :-)
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We've launched our first SMS investigation to determine if Google has strategic market status in its general search and search advertising activities: https://www.gov.uk/... [image]