Editing Google Search (section)

=== Ranking of results ===

By 2012, it handled more than 3.5 billion searches per day.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Google Search Statistics - Internet Live Stats |url=http://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204095944/http://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics/ |archive-date=February 4, 2015 |access-date=April 9, 2021 |website=www.internetlivestats.com |language=en}}</ref> In 2013 the [[European Commission]] found that Google Search favored Google's own products, instead of the best result for consumers' needs.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Barker |first1=Alex |last2=McCarthy |first2=Bede |date=April 9, 2013 |title=Google favours 'in-house' search results |url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c308b656-a124-11e2-bae1-00144feabdc0.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c308b656-a124-11e2-bae1-00144feabdc0.html |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=January 26, 2014 |website=Financial Times}}</ref> In February 2015 Google announced a major change to its mobile search [[algorithm]] which would favor mobile friendly over other [[websites]]. Nearly 60% of Google [[online traffic|searches]] come from mobile phones. Google says it wants users to have access to premium quality [[websites]]. Those websites which lack a mobile-friendly [[Interface (computing)|interface]] would be ranked lower and it is expected that this update will cause a shake-up of [[Page rank|ranks]]. Businesses who fail to update their [[websites]] accordingly could see a dip in their regular websites traffic.<ref>{{Cite web |last=D'Onfro |first=Jillian |date=April 19, 2015 |title=Google is making a giant change this week that could crush millions of small businesses |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/google-mobilegeddon-2015-4 |website=Business Insider |access-date=November 5, 2016 |archive-date=October 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007045504/http://www.businessinsider.com/google-mobilegeddon-2015-4 |url-status=live }}</ref>