/ Google updatesGoogle has announced an important update to its web browser (Chrome 62) to show a “NOT SECURE” warning when users enter text in a form on an HTTP page. continue reading…
Google has launched its Accelerated Mobile Pages project, a pared down version of the mobile web, which runs on its own version of HTML.
Google has officially started phasing out the right hand gutter (sidebar) ads. Instead, Google will only show 1 – 4 ads above the fold and force the rest to the bottom of the results page.
This month Google announced its search volume is now dominated by mobile searches worldwide. For the first time, over 50% of all of Google’s queries worldwide were done on mobile devices, and this this figure is expected to keep growing.
This is a real market game-changer for businesses with an online presence as it means over half of their potential new customers who come from search engine traffic could be lost to competitors with a responsive website. It also means those businesses who do have responsive sites will be ranked – and found – ahead of those who have not embraced the new technology.
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