“Google now sees more people searching the Web on smartphones than on desktops and laptops. That poses a problem for the Alphabet company, since mobile advertisements generally garner lower prices than their desktop equivalents,” Adam Levy writes for The Motley Fool. “At the same time, Google is under pressure from mobile ad blockers and new publishing formats from Apple and Facebook.”
“Google’s plan to increase mobile ad revenue includes speeding up the Web, so that more of its ads get displayed. The company announced Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, earlier this month, and it has the potential to revolutionize the Internet,” Levy writes. “AMP allows Web publishers to tap into a shared library of code, saving browsers megabytes’ worth of HTML and Javascript code that are commonly featured on each individual Web page. It also enables smart caching to support faster load times. The result is a page that usually takes 6 seconds to load will take less than half a second to load when reworked with AMP.”
“Meanwhile, Apple released Apple News with the latest iteration of iOS. Apple is continuing the shift of news consumption from the Web to mobile apps. In-app content is immune to ad blockers that Apple started to allow in the App Store with the new iOS. It’s also locked ad serving to the app creator — Apple News publishers must use iAd,” Levy writes. “Google has a strong interest in keeping the Web relatively open. Google Web crawlers can’t read what’s behind Facebook’s and Apple’s walled gardens, so having more content published on those platforms means less content for Google to link to in its search results. Additionally, Google can’t make any money off publishers on those publishers because, as mentioned, Facebook and Apple don’t support third-party ad platforms.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: After years of stagnation and ever-more-awful ad networks, ’tis very interesting times indeed for online publishers, visitors, advertisers, app makers, and advertising entities like Google, Apple’s iAd, Facebook, etc.
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Google Ads = Scourge of the Interweb.
There are worse, far worse.
As for Google tracking, blocked! No thank you.
The cat and mouse game creates innovation and creates more diverse revenue streams for everyone. Nice.
Gaagle is SOL with me. I don’t use any Gaagle mobile apps or Gaagle search. I do use the News app and Duck Duck Go. 🖖😀⌚️
Hey!!! Eric A Hole Mole .!.. Fck YOU! Disgrace to the WORLD! SUCK THIS VW ASSHAT!
The reviewer is an idiot. You can drag by lightly pressing the trackpad. More pressure will bring up quick look. Took me less than a minute to figure it out.
Those of us reading your post about a completely unrelated topic are not sure who the idiot is here.
Thankfully I read the thread it should have been on last night so I am up and running and fully reality checked in this case. (Actually an accidentally useful reply to me as it turns out, for the criticism did seem rather odd regarding the magic track pad, but I digress)
I believe AMP was involved in the confusion w the trackpad reply.
An interesting conundrum.. On one hand you can have one Browser App on your device to access tons of websites on the other you have one App for each website/company you are interested in. I guess if you have the space on your device to spare… 🙂
No, you have 3 options
-Web for little common places you visit (wild west)
-The Special content gathering apps like apple News, which provide a nicer design, custom tailored content, some of it curated. Like a huge shopping mall with air conditioner. (limited content inside, but selected vendors) some malls are high fashion, some are more of like outlets.
-Specialty apps like when I go visit directly app store, or BestBuy, or Sears, it only has items I vendor I trust is showcasing.
you are free to choose, apple is giving more choice not less.
Is there a sort of master app to which you can add easy access directly to chosen vendors own apps so that you can have instant access to those most important to you in one place rather than having to access them separately?
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