Google will soon stop considering sites with full-page app install ads as mobile friendly

02 September, 2015
Clicking through a search result and being greeted by an app install ad covering the whole web page can surely be frustrating. Looks like Google has taken note of this, and is taking steps to ensure that web-masters adopt user-friendly ways to promote apps.

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  • 6ch
  • 25 Sep 2015

This is why google own the world wide web league.
Google see it through user's eyes and experience hence they improve it. In the end google wins user's mind and heart.

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    • Andy
    • jCq
    • 02 Sep 2015

    Anyone who has an issue with Google's choice to make the mobile web more user friendly may simply switch to Bing or Yahoo as their search provider. Enjoy!!!

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      • Umblical Noose
      • 7j@
      • 02 Sep 2015

      Thanks a lot Google!

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        • Anonymous
        • Mfx
        • 02 Sep 2015

        stobs, 02 Sep 2015and what *can* google do about it? if someone hits the url ... moreGoogle control search rankings, and being put down in the search rankings can seriously harm a website's potential, especially business sites. I assume mobile friendly gets first billing on mobile searches.

        Sure, you can go direct, this won't change that at all, but the more pages of search results someone has to trawl through to get to a site, the less likely they are to bother.

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          • AnonD-424948
          • MtB
          • 02 Sep 2015

          stobs, 02 Sep 2015and what *can* google do about it? if someone hits the url ... moreWell,Google almost own internet. But to enlightened you - it will be done trough Chrome,so yes,Google can block this things!

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            • AnonD-424948
            • MtB
            • 02 Sep 2015

            Finally! Now we talking! Nice decision because those ads are really annoying.Especially on small screens...

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              • Anonymous
              • FUf
              • 02 Sep 2015

              I always experience this when browsing most site always automatically redirect me to a DL page saying my Samsung tab or android phone is infected and need to download an app to fix it which is weird since I'm using a Lumia 530 and its not running android let alone a Samsung tab and most of those download are launchers and most annoying is they sometimes automatically redirect me to Google play store how is that even possible.

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                • AnonD-102194
                • IrP
                • 02 Sep 2015

                stobs, 02 Sep 2015and what *can* google do about it? if someone hits the url ... moreguess you are owner of one of the spamming website

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                  • stobs
                  • vQ}
                  • 02 Sep 2015

                  and what *can* google do about it? if someone hits the url directly, they're still gonna go to the website unless google purchased the internet last night.

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                    • vM6
                    • 02 Sep 2015

                    Great News

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