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  1. Oct 27, 2016 · Thus the new index split will incentivise publishers to offer richer, better pages on mobile, as Google is prioritising the mobile index over the desktop one, especially for smartphone users — which is where a majority of searches now takes place. Google regularly makes changes to its index, but this is a particularly big one. The mobile index will be the "primary" index and will be kept ...

  2. Oct 27, 2016 · Google is targeting 'stripped down' mobile websites. After Google splits its index, when you search on a smartphone, the search engine won't refer to the "full" desktop site when determining what ...

  3. Oct 27, 2016 · Google is dividing its index - the almost infinite database of websites it stores for search - into separate mobile and desktop versions. Google is splitting its search index to target 'stripped ...

    • The Move from Desktop to Mobile
    • Google Won't Split Search in Two
    • Content Is Still King and Speed Second

    For years, Google Search has functioned in the same way. Google would crawl a website, index its content, rank it based on a secret algorithm, and display search results. Things first started to change at the start of the 2010s, when the continuous proliferation of mobile devices led Google to implement the first modifications to its search algorit...

    With today's announcement, things won't change either, and Google once again reaffirmed that it has no plans to split its search engine into two separate systems to cater for the two divergent userbases. The new "mobile-first indexing" means that Google will look at a site's mobile version first, before the desktop version, if a website has both. T...

    Google said it took this decision because most of its search traffic comes from mobile devices and its search engine should also reflect the current situation. Things won't change a lot on Google Search Desktop, where content from the desktop versions of pages will continue to surface in search results as they did until now. But on mobiles, for exa...

  4. Google’s mobile-first indexing initiative started just seven and a half years, while we thought it was completed last October, it is now really going to be fully done after July 5th. “The ...

  5. Jun 21, 2022 · Read Time: 4 min read Summary: TL;DR: Google is splitting its search index to prioritize mobile over desktop, reflecting the growing trend of mobile usage for searches. This move emphasizes the importance of mobile-friendly websites, as nearly 27% of searches are done on smartphones.

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  7. Mobile Search Index Prioritized over Desktop Search Index Big changes are coming to Google across all their services and at the forefront is the push to a mobile-first world. At the recent Pubcon in Las Vegas, Gary Illyes announced a major change to the Google Search Index: Mobile & Desktop will be separated into 2 different indexes and the mobile index will take priority over the desktop index.