Yesterday I did a post on my other blog concerning mobile surfing. To sum it up, what happens is Google serves as a starting page in your mobile browser and lets you surf regular www pages (non-wap) by adapting them for a mobile device. In the meantime, it acts similar to an anonymiser – all that shows in the logs of a site you’re browsing that way is a user agent that has nothing notable about it, there is no referrer information, and if you track the IP it’s Google. So forget your old proxy fetching scripts, they are so yesterday, Google is willing to provide you with a new ultimate solution.
You may ask me, if that’s how it works for a mobile device what’s the benefit for regular browser users? Well, as far as I understand it’s not really difficult to create an application imitating a mobile device and embed Google’s mobile stuff into it, maybe even using their API. Will you get busted for using an app like that? – I bet you will eventually, as is the case with overly abusing anything out there. Maybe even Google will take measures to prevent people from using their mobile engine/interface like that – or just maybe it will go another route.
Google might actually like it. First, it will increase the number of Internet users whose starting page is Google, thus bringing Googe even closer to owning the Internet. Second, considering how Google has an embedded navigation frame in their current mobile interface, it will give Google tons of data on what its users do. Third, now they don’t place AdWords ads into mobile search results (it’s kinda difficult to come up with something usable considering the format – small screen, a lot of scrolling, etc.) but this increase in the number of users will probably make them reconsider it and maybe come up with some solution.
Won’t it make the relatinship between Google and blackhat AdSense publishers even more intimate? 😉
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