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This was publicly announced more than a year ago, but still isn't live: http://www.thesempost.com/google-working-completely-separate-mobile-index-desktop-index/

by rm999 10y ago

This was publicly announced more than a year ago, but still isn't live: http://www.thesempost.com/google-working-completely-separate-mobile-index-desktop-index/ http://www.thesempost.com/google-working-completely-separate... This title seems misleading, especially the "better" part. I think what's going on is a lot of the web has bifurcated into mobile versions and desktop versions of the same site. Mobile versions are often stripped down for speed reasons, but mobile searchers can still land on a page based on a search query that only exists on the desktop site. Google is fixing this in a pretty sensible way (although I don't get why they are explicitly making the mobile crawler more active or "fresher"). This won't affect sites that serve the same content on mobile and desktop. I suppose now the concern may swap over to sites that offer more content on mobile, but I don't know why anyone would do that.

puzzle 10y ago
Reality is much more complex than that. Google's index has been tiered for many years, see e.g. https://search.googleblog.com/2012/05/search-quality-highlights-53-changes.html https://search.googleblog.com/2012/05/search-quality-highlig... • New index tier. [launch codename "cantina", project codename "Indexing"] We keep our index in “tiers” where different documents are indexed at different rates depending on how relevant they are likely to be to users. This month we introduced an additional indexing tier to support continued comprehensiveness in search results.
- ceph_ 10y ago
  This just means how often they scrape a site. Reddit gets scanned more often for changes than someone's personal website that only gets a few hits. You can test this. Posts on Reddit show up in search in minutes.
  - puzzle 10y ago
    It's not just a matter of freshness. They are also served by different backends with different trade-offs.

by rm999 10y ago

puzzle 10y ago

Reality is much more complex than that. Google's index has been tiered for many years, see e.g. https://search.googleblog.com/2012/05/search-quality-highlights-53-changes.html https://search.googleblog.com/2012/05/search-quality-highlig... • New index tier. [launch codename "cantina", project codename "Indexing"] We keep our index in “tiers” where different documents are indexed at different rates depending on how relevant they are likely to be to users. This month we introduced an additional indexing tier to support continued comprehensiveness in search results.

ceph_ 10y ago
This just means how often they scrape a site. Reddit gets scanned more often for changes than someone's personal website that only gets a few hits. You can test this. Posts on Reddit show up in search in minutes.
- puzzle 10y ago
  It's not just a matter of freshness. They are also served by different backends with different trade-offs.