{"id":19237,"date":"2025-06-24T07:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/google-could-be-forced-to-change-uk-search-as-watchdog-takes-steps\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:37:47","slug":"google-could-be-forced-to-change-uk-search-as-watchdog-takes-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/google-could-be-forced-to-change-uk-search-as-watchdog-takes-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google could be forced to change UK search as watchdog takes steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CMA proposes tightening regulation, which could lead to site giving users option to choose alternative services<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/jun\/24\/oil-slumps-markets-rally-trump-iran-israel-ceasefire-inflation-dollar-pound-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google could be forced to make a series of changes to its search business, including giving internet users an option to choose alternative services, after the UK competition watchdog proposed to tighten regulation of the company.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Market Authority (CMA) is preparing to designate the world\u2019s largest search engine with \u201cstrategic market status\u201d \u2013 a term that gives the watchdog extra powers to regulate technology companies deemed to have considerable market heft.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jun\/24\/google-uk-search-uk-watchdog-cma\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0d187031af6662279926ecf225d8a284a4f932e4\/0_0_3648_2920\/master\/3648.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1d8ac997b2f5571c4dcd8bb940addc29\" title=\"Google could be forced to change UK search as watchdog takes steps\" \/>CMA proposes tightening regulation, which could lead to site giving users option to choose alternative services<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nGoogle could be forced to make a series of changes to its search business, including giving internet users an option to choose alternative services, after the UK competition watchdog proposed to tighten regulation of the company.<br \/>\nThe Competition and Market Authority (CMA) is preparing to designate the world\u2019s largest search engine with \u201cstrategic market status\u201d \u2013 a term that gives the watchdog extra powers to regulate technology companies deemed to have considerable market heft. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMA proposes tightening regulation, which could lead to site giving users option to choose alternative services Business live \u2013 latest updates Google could be forced to make a series of changes to its search business, including giving internet users an option to choose alternative services, after the UK competition watchdog proposed to tighten regulation of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/google-could-be-forced-to-change-uk-search-as-watchdog-takes-steps\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google could be forced to change UK search as watchdog takes steps<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}