Changes in rankings of smartphone search results
Finally. Websites in the tech sphere are usually mobile friendly (because they live on the edge of modernity or because they are bare bones and content-centric), but "common" websites often offer a poor mobile experience. Google penalising this is good news for the consumer.However one point that is not addressed in the article: what about websites that make you go through a first page/pop-up which proposes you to download their app every time[1]? That is an annoying behaviour that I'd like to see penalised as well.And as usual there is a relevant XKCD comic: http://xkcd.com/869/[1] here, in France, most newspapers websites do this. Main result is that I do not read news on my phone any more - not a big loss actually.