The user-agent string mess. It can be found within a user-agent string like the one below: There are so many user-agents that asking a CDN to store a special version of a page for each user-agent might be too much of a burden.
Let's return to our example of the New York real estate agent. Consider the homepage of a real estate site for an agent in New York. If we weren't a real estate agent in New York and were instead an established brand and if we didn't have to worry...
Either way, the data challenge mobile search engines ultimately face is that user led direct intention signals (i.e.the query string) are diminishing whilst the devices themselves hold the technological capability to send many many more contextual...
In December, Google introduced the smartphone crawler (User agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7 (compatible; Googlebot...
Note the recommendation that you don't need to look for Googlebot-Mobile in the user agent string. When you see an incoming user agent that is mobile device specific, send them to the mobile version of your site.
The caret "^" character stipulates that the User Agent must start with the listed string (e.g. In this particular case the block will be effected whenever the string "Yandex" occurs in the User Agent identifier.
You can imagine in real estate an agent whose base is local but they also want to attract people from outside the area," said Salar Kamangar, director of product management at Google. Instead, the Bay Area real estate agent will still need to...
