The investigation could force changes to Google’s search business in the UK, where it controls over 90% of general search queries and serves 200,000+ advertisers. The big picture.

In the early days, Google used ccTLD to provide locally relevant search results. As of 2017, Google started providing local results regardless of whether you used a country’s ccTLD or google.com.

Google’s products, including Search, helped to provide an estimated $148 billion in economic activity in 2023 in the UK, supporting over a million businesses across the country, according to ...

Google has announced that it's retiring separate country code top-level domain names for search, like google.co.uk or google.com.br, ... you'll see results for UK-based local businesses only.

Britain's antitrust regulator launched an investigation into Google's search services, including their impact on advertising markets, in January. The UK Competition and Markets Authority said at ...

A class action is demanding Google pay out £5 billion (€5.83 billion) to British companies that have been forced to buy ads on its search engine.

No search without Javascript: With GUI browsers, Google's search engine can only be used with Javascript enabled. Tested here on google.de with the Chromium-based browser Vivaldi. Jan 18, 2025 at ...

Google is facing a legal challenge in the UK over allegations it abused its market dominance in online search advertising, with a claim seeking £25 billion in damages.

LONDON — Google is being sued for £5 billion ($6.6 billion) in potential damages in the U.K. over allegations that the U.S. tech giant abused its "near-total dominance" in the online search ...