Google announced today it’s now using mobile-first indexing for over half the web pages shown in its search results globally — a significant milestone in Google’s move to favor mobile sites over desktop sites in its search results.
Amazon and Walmart have gone back and forth with affordable fast shipping programs to try and capture shoppers looking for household goods. After acquiring same-day grocery delivery business Shipt, Target is expanding into the foray with Walmart and Amazon.
The future of search goes beyond blue links on a search results page. In 2019, more results will come in the form of voice response, images, and before the searcher even enters a query.
Days after FedEx CEO Frederick Smith dismissed the Amazon threat to its business during the company’s earnings call, Amazon announced an expansion of its two-year old Amazon Air operation which will now add ten 767-300 dedicated Amazon cargo aircraft to its fleet.
California cancer and birth-defect warning requirements that took effect in August 2018 have stopped at least some online merchants from selling products to state residents.
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