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Google's mobile search is changing forever some are calling it mobile get in I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update if you use google search on your phone the search results may not pull up everything you're looking for that's because google has changed how it ranks websites when you search on a phone Google will only give you links to pages that were designed to look good on a phone screen so if a company never made a mobile-friendly version of its website it gets no love from google on your phone if Google makes mobile web searching a better experience you see it can sell more ads to people browsing on phones Google has a tool to check if a website is mobile friendly now this change can be a pain for small businesses which may not have had the time or the money to make a mobile version of their website but it's not just mom and pop shops the website for California Pizza Kitchen a chain restaurant didn't pass Google's mobile-friendly test change is also coming to Twitter the social network for sharing your thoughts with the world now let you share private messages to strangers it's now possible to send direct messages to anyone regardless if the person follows you opening up direct messages benefits companies and marketers because those accounts can privately chat with people without the customer following the brand but it also means if you opt into doing this you could get harassed by strangers or spam so turn it on with caution harassment and abuse is a problem on Twitter where some people spew hating threats as they hide behind anonymous user names twitter is making some changes to fight back against trolls and make the network a safer place Twitter changed its policy to prohibit not only specific threats of violence but also promoting violence against others and Twitter canal lock out an abusive account for a set amount of time to give back in you may have to give Twitter your phone number for identification and delete the offending tweets on the other side of things there's an app trying to help you delete tweets from your past that you may regret a new app called clear for iOS promises to comb through your Twitter Facebook and Instagram accounts to help you find things you posted that may be a pensive it looks for keywords things to do with race or negative emotions political figures or even just the word America in case you wrote something about the country that a future employer may not agree with you then have to review which messages to the leech obviously a nap can't stop you from posting stupid things that make you look bad and a computer right now can tell what is offensive but it is trying the company is working with IBM's Watson supercomputer to learn the tone of a tweet and what makes something offensive the app has a waiting list to use it's still in a testing phase that's your tech news update you can head over to cnet com for more from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey