Google Search On Mobile Now Warns When A Site Won’t Work On Your Device

27 Jul 2014 • techcrunch.com

The company has announced that it will now flag to its users when websites listed in their search results may have elements that will not show up on a users’ device. That unsupported code today typically results in missing elements and blank screens.

To be clear, Google does not say that it will leave out those sites altogether in its search results, or bar you in any way from visiting them. But I suspect a lot of sites that are written with un-supportable code (even in part) will see a drop in their traffic as a result of those warnings.

Bad news for such sites and great news for users. Hopefully this would put pressure on those sites to finally kill their Flash and switch to better technologies.