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Cross-posted from the Webmaster Central blog It's 2016 and it's hard to believe that browsing the web on a mobile phone can still feel so slow with users abandoning sites that just don't load quickly. To us -- and many in the industry -- it was clear that something needed to change. That was why we started working with the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, an open source initiative to improve the mobile web experience for everyone. Less than six months ago, we started sending people to AMP pages in the “Top stories” section of the Google Search Results page on mobile phones. Since then, we’ve seen incredible global adoption of AMP that has gone beyond the news industry to include e-commerce, entertainment, travel, recipe sites and so on. To date we have more than 150 million AMP docs in our index, with over 4 million new ones being added every week. As a result, today we’re sharing an early preview of our expanded AMP support across the entire search results page --not ...

What’s your New Year's resolution for 2016? If it’s doing what you love while earning money, you can start turning your passion into profit by signing up for AdSense and earning money from your content.  For more information, see our site or hear from our publishers . If you already have an AdSense account, consider the following alternatives to earn money online: Google Consumer Surveys : Earn incremental revenue beyond ads each time visitors complete short, user-friendly surveys in exchange for access to your content. Google Contributor : With Contributor, anyone can pay a monthly subscription to see fewer ads across the Web. Each time an ad is removed on your site, a thank-you message appears in its place and Contributor helps to fund your content. Google AdMob : If you have an app, you can gain insights about your users, drive more in-app purchases, and maximize your ad revenue with AdMob.  Happy New Year and see you online! Google AdSense Team

You might have heard about Contributor through recent posts from the  Google team , publishers , and the press . Today we want to share more about the product and provide you an easy way to promote this new revenue source to your site visitors. Think about your own experience surfing the web. Are there publishers whose content you particularly love and keep going back to? Do you wish you could support these publishers, but see fewer ads? We’ve learned that users want an option to directly support the open web and the people who make it hum with great content, while also seeing fewer ads. We understand that as a publisher your most pressing concerns are keeping your users happy and generating revenue to support your business. Contributor presents a new option to meet both of these goals. Here’s how it works With Contributor, users pick a monthly contribution level (of $2, $5, or $10) and those funds are used to pay for the sites they visit. By choosing to contribute to publishers, u...