ISSUE 161 – 21st November 2014 Yahoo Becomes Mozilla’s Default US Search Engine This week, it was announced that Google will no longer be the global default search engine provider for the Firefox browser. Yahoo have now agreed a 5 year strategic partnership with Mozilla, after Google’s 10 year spell as the default search provider on Firefox.
As of yet this will not affect customers in UK or most of Europe, where Google continues to be the default search provider, or in China where the default is Baidu, or Russia where the default is Yandex.
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Google launches "Mobile-Friendly" Labels Google will from now notify if a website is well-designed for mobile devices with the label "mobile-friendly" on mobile search results. This label is the first step in helping mobile users have a better mobile Web experience. Google also mentioned that it will gradually use these mobile-friendly criteria as a ranking signal.
In order to help you find out, Google has launched a Mobile-Friendly Test in Google Webmaster tools that gives you a pass or fail grade.
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