Key Takeaways Google's search and advertising businesses are the subject of a new investigation from United Kingdom regulators.The regulators will probe whether Google's dominant position in those markets help or hurt consumers.

A British probe into Google has opened by a watchdog agency as its first ivestigation under a new law over Google's search and advertising services on some European consumers.

Google’s online search empire faces is being targeted with a fresh probe under the United Kingdom’s sweeping new online competition law, officials announced on Tuesday.

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has launched a probe into Google LLC’s practices in the search market. The new CMA probe is the first of its kind to have been launched by the regulator under the Digital Markets,