Mobile Search Tops at Google - Digits - WSJ

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"This summer, world-wide Google searches on mobile devices surpassed those on personal computers for the first time, Amit Singhal, head of search at Google parent Alphabet Inc., said at the Recode Mobile conference on Thursday. Those figures exclude searches done on tablet computers, he said.

The shift to mobile has prompted Google to rethink its core business, which places ads based on keywords typed into the company’s search engine. New types of devices, from phones to tablets to cars to wearables, will require new ways of searching, Mr. Singhal said at the event in Half Moon Bay, Calif."

Mobile Search Tops at Google - Digits - WSJ