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the mobile web will be less annoying thanks to google google announced a couple of changes that will affect mobile search results the one that we all care about even you over there mr. grumpy is Google demoting sites in its search results that show intrusive interstitials that block the actual content you want to read even if you've never heard of the term interstitial I'm sure you've seen one you go to a site you see the content for a second and then it's grayed out and covered up with an annoying ad or something they have to close that out to read what you want that annoyance is thanks to an interstitial Google's changes to its mobile search results will start on January 10th 2017 if sites want to rank highly on Google which pretty much every site wants to do their mobile sites should shy away from these intrusive measures however Google will not penalize every site that uses an interstitial sites that show a notice for something like attracting policy or age verification are a-ok google says banners that use a reasonable amount of screen space and are easily dismissible will not be affected who's ready to find out the limits of reasonability I am Google's mobile search results will also get a little bit more streamlined two years ago Google started putting a mobile-friendly label on sites that works well on mobile devices the company found that eighty-five percent of pages in mobile search results now receive that label google says whether a site is mobile-friendly or not still matters to its results but the tag itself will be dropped to remove clutter that's it for this tech news update am i as akhtar and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update