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Corporate and technical writers
More search requests are now being made on mobile devices than on personal computers — in the U.S and many other parts of the world, Google said yesterday.
So, the tipping point to mobile search is here, and earlier than some pundits thought.
All the more reason to ensure your website is mobile friendly, otherwise it is likely to be demoted in Google’s search rankings.
This site is mobile responsive now and so is its sister site www.technical-writer.co.nz.
We made the upgrades in response to Google advising that mobile friendly sites would benefit from changes to its search algorithms released yesterday. If your site is not mobile responsive, it will still rank the same in desktop and laptop searches, but will suffer when people search from mobile devices.
[Read more…] about we’re mobile responsive now, did you make Google’s deadline?
Here’s a very nifty postal gimmick … great for customising envelopes: the Google Map Envelope.
Simply enter a location in the box and get back an envelope ready to print with a Google map picture of the location you chose. Nice!
It is said that Google reaches about 167 terabytes of information on the open web but there are another 91,000 terabytes sitting in the ‘deep web’ that Google, Bing, Yahoo and other mainstream search engines can’t reach. Here’s an interesting article on 10 search engines, such as Infomine, DeepWebTech and Scirus, that can search the deep web to find those hidden libraries of knowledge you never knew existed.