Re:Google to divide its index, giving mobile users better an...
by 1_2__3 on Friday October 14, 2016 @01:17PM
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From firsthand experience I can tell you the intent is worse than most people realize. The discussion is usually "well of course <company> wants to prioritize mobile, that's where the money is." That's small thinking. Those companies want to kill the non-revenue generating options in favor of the revenue-generating ones. In other words, Google isn't trying to de-prioritize desktop, they're trying to force you away from it (because they make so little money there) onto mobile. Once you realize that their strategy makes a bit more sense.
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Re:Google to divide its index, giving mobile users better an...
by alphapapa on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:59PM
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Do you mean that, in their ideal world, anyone who was sitting at their desktop computer trying to do actual work, and needed to search for something online, would have to pull out their phone and search Google with it instead of with their desktop browser? And then do some silly dance of manually typing URLs from their phone's screen into their desktop computer?
Because that's patently absurd. That would cripple their own use of their own search engine.
However, that's not to say that there aren't necessarily some..."people"...at Google who would try to pursue such a patently absurd outcome. Maybe we need to give more serious consideration to these "distributed search engine" projects...