Around the Net
Mobile Threatens Google's Livelihood
Consumers’ increasing preference for mobile apps is challenging Google’s bread-and-butter business model. “The company was built with the help of an army of ‘spiders’
deployed to crawl the Web and sophisticated algorithms to rank the value of pages,” The Wall Street Journal reports. “But in the mobile age, those spiders can't easily navigate the apps
where users are spending most of their time, threatening Google's roughly $50-billion advertising business.”
