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  1. 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 ...

  2. Oct 27, 2016 · The mobile index will be the "primary" index and will be kept more up-to-date than the desktop index. Thus the new index split will incentivise publishers to offer richer, better pages on mobile,...

  3. 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...

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    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...

  5. Oct 16, 2016 · October 15, 2016. ⋅. 3 min read. 2.6K. SHARES. 17K. READS. Google is splitting its index of search results into separate versions for mobile and desktop, a change which will happen in...

  6. Nov 2, 2016 · So with the Google search index set to split completely into two distinct versions: one dedicated to mobile search and a separate one for desktop, what does this mean for online marketing strategies? Mobile search and desktop search are set to divide so that mobile pages are indexed differently to those accessed through desktop searches.