Windows 10: Google: Mobile-first Indexing

Brink · Nov 5, 2016

Today, most people are searching on Google using a mobile device. However, our ranking systems still typically look at the desktop version of a page’s content to evaluate its relevance to the user. This can cause issues when the mobile page has less content than the desktop page because our algorithms are not evaluating the actual page that is seen by a mobile searcher.

To make our results more useful, we’ve begun experiments to make our index mobile-first. Although our search index will continue to be a single index of websites and apps, our algorithms will eventually primarily use the mobile version of a site’s content to rank pages from that site, to understand structured data, and to show snippets from those pages in our results. Of course, while our index will be built from mobile documents, we're going to continue to build a great search experience for all users, whether they come from mobile or desktop devices.

We understand this is an important shift in our indexing and it’s one we take seriously. We’ll continue to carefully experiment over the coming months on a small scale and we’ll ramp up this change when we’re confident that we have a great user experience. Though we’re only beginning this process, here are a few recommendations to help webmasters prepare as we move towards a more mobile-focused index.

If you have a responsive site or a dynamic serving site where the primary content and markup is equivalent across mobile and desktop, you shouldn’t have to change anything.

If you have a site configuration where the primary content and markup is different across mobile and desktop, you should consider making some changes to your site.

Make sure to serve structured markup for both the desktop and mobile version.

Sites can verify the equivalence of their structured markup across desktop and mobile by typing the URLs of both versions into the Structured Data Testing Tool and comparing the output.

When adding structured data to a mobile site, avoid adding large amounts of markup that isn’t relevant to the specific information content of each document.

Use the robots.txt testing tool to verify that your mobile version is accessible to Googlebot.

Sites do not have to make changes to their canonical links; we’ll continue to use these links as guides to serve the appropriate results to a user searching on desktop or mobile.

If you are a site owner who has only verified their desktop site in Search Console, please add and verify your mobile version.

If you only have a desktop site, we'll continue to index your desktop site just fine, even if we're using a mobile user agent to view your site.

If you are building a mobile version of your site, keep in mind that a functional desktop-oriented site can be better than a broken or incomplete mobile version of the site. It's better for you to build up your mobile site and launch it when ready.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us via the Webmaster forums or our public events. We anticipate this change will take some time and we’ll update you as we make progress on migrating our systems.
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Source: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Mobile-first Indexing

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ItWit · Nov 5, 2016

Windows 10 Search and Indexing not working

I have the same issue with the indexing hanging on about 8000 files indexed but I don't have Google Drive installed, any ideas where to go next. In my case it commenced after the December update, first characteristic was not being able to find known
people in Outlook then tried to re-index believing that the index was corrupt and now it hangs. I have two other machines in the house one of the two has exactly the same update and problem, my laptop has not had the update installed and it works fine, indexes
work and will rebuild. Obviously not installing the update on this machine.

Shawn 'Cmdr' Keene [MVP] · Nov 5, 2016

Windows 10 100% Disk Problem on Task Manager

It is, although disabling it would make your computer run slower. Everything from the lock screen "spotlight" pictures to your email depends on the indexing services to speed it up (that's why indexing exists). It's just like the Google index. Google
would not be able to return 3 billion results in under 1 second if they didn't use an index.

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