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The investigation will look for "potential exploitative conduct" by the tech companies, which dominate the mobile market.

Google search users on Wednesday noticed former President Joe Biden missing from a list of search results for U.S. presidents. Google blamed a "data error" for the omission but has since fixed the issue.

Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google have come under investigation by the UK's competition watchdog over their mobile platforms. Each firm's mobile operating systems, app stores and browsers would be probed to see if they required tailor-made regulation, the Competition and Markets Authority said.

CMA examining impact of tech firms' operating systems, app stores and browsers on consumers and businesses

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Apple and Google, the tech giants behind massive mobile ecosystems, are facing dual antitrust probes in the U.K. The investigations, launched by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), aim to determine whether Apple and Google hold “strategic market status” in their respective mobile ecosystems, including operating systems, app stores and smartphone-based browsers.

The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching so-called “strategic market status” (SMS) investigations into the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google.

Britain launched an investigation into the smartphone browser market on Thursday, its second use of recently bulked up regulatory powers to take on tech titans.