How searching on mobile browsers is different from searching on desktop browsers?
In today’s world, smart phones and tablets have completely dominated everyone’s life — yours and mine included. It’s no surprise that mobile search has surpassed desktop search. Consumers are searching for answers from their mobile devices. Research shows that more than 57% of online traffic comes from mobile devices.

With so much on the line, Here are a few differences you might have overlooked about search on mobile browsers vs search on desktop browsers.

Mobiles have a smaller display

Mobiles have a smaller display than desktops. So the user will not be able to view all the information at one go. Unless the required information is clearly visible, you shouldn’t expect the user to stick around. So the page layout for a mobile device needs to be simpler, easily readable and in general optimized for touch devices.

Quicker results on mobiles

A good thumb rule to follow when it comes to building applications specific to mobiles, is to make things super fast because the chances that the user is on the go is very high and you don’t want to lose that user because it took a second longer to load.

Mobile devices are easy to use

Smartphones have become very ubiquitous, infiltrating every part of our lives. This is mainly because it brought the power of technology to our palms and that ease with with everything happens is the unsung hero here. There are millions of apps out there overall, and thens of thousands for each and every category. So your user is spoilt for choices, you don’t want to give them a reason to find some app that’s not yours because yours was harder to use.

Mobile devices may have slower processors

Not everyone who owns a smartphone is using the top of the line smartphone and this means the majority don’t have the super fast processors. Now it becomes your responsibility to build optimized apps that work on processors no matter its speed.

We at SearchBlox have been working on enterprise search for the past decade and a half and these were some of our observations in that period. This is why our products support mobile browsers right out of the box and don’t cause any overloads.

If your’e interested, we could set you up with a demo and you can judge for yourself how much good it would do to you. All you have to do is give us a call at +1 (866) 933–3626 or fill out this form.
['Searchblox Team']
['Search', 'Elasticsearch', 'Mobile', 'Smartphones']