Mobile Search:

All sites to have mobile-first indexing enabled inside a year, says Google

Posted on March 2, 2020

Search giant Google is in the process of sending out notices to site owners via its Search Console service, informing those that have mobile-first indexing issues that it expects all websites to make the switch within (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

DuckDuckGo offers alternative proposal to Google’s search choice screen

Posted on January 30, 2020

Earlier in the month, Google revealed which search engines it would be using as part of the default search engine options for Android users. After successfully bidding to be one of the options for each country currently in (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Google refreshes desktop view of search results

Posted on January 17, 2020

Search giant Google has started to roll out a new updated look for both organic search results and paid results on the desktop version of its search engine, a change that will (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Google announces results of Android search engine ballot

Posted on January 13, 2020

Google has revealed which alternative search engines it will begin to offer to Android users in each EU country following its ballot.

From the beginning of (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Search engine study finds users would use alternatives to Google

Posted on November 4, 2019

A new study has concluded that internet users across the globe would use alternatives to Google if they were presented with the choice.

The research was commissioned by American search engine DuckDuckGo, and it surveyed more than 3,400 adults based in the UK, Australia, the US and Germany to find out which search engines Android users would choose if presented with (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Mobile search attributed to Google’s ad revenue

Posted on November 1, 2019

Alphabet, the parent company of search giant Google, has recently reported advertising revenues totalling $33.9 billion (£26.3bn) for the third quarter of 2019, with Google’s CEO attributing some of this to mobile search.

This quarter’s ad revenue is a 17% increase on that of Q3 2018, which stood at $29bn (£22.5bn). The company’s overall revenue stood at (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Google to set mobile-first as default for new sites

Posted on May 31, 2019

Search giant Google has recently announced that all new websites previously unknown to the company will be defaulted to the new mobile-first indexing as of July 1.

Furthermore, older sites that (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler