Google Searches for an App Role

Written By The USA Links on Sunday 9 March 2014 | 20:51


WSJ.com: US Business

Google Searches for an App Role

Updated March 9, 2014 6:33 p.m. ET


Its name has become a verb meaning "to search," but as users shift to mobile devices, Google Inc. is suddenly faced with the threat that its search engine—and its advertising business—are becoming less relevant.


The company was built with the help of an army of "spiders" deployed to crawl the Web, and sophisticated algorithms to rank the value of pages. But in the mobile age, those spiders can't easily navigate...





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