Google to create a new search index for smartphone users

Google is reportedly working on ways to enhance smartphone users’ experience. The company recently introduced its faster Accelerated Mobile Pages (Amp) for mobile search results in India.

In a similar effort of improving the user experience, the search giant is now working on a new search index especially made for smartphones. The smartphone search index will be separate from the desktop one which won’t be as up-to-date as the mobile search index. According to a report in Search Engine Land, users can expect this update in the coming months.

Google first revealed their plans of working on a new mobile search index at the SMX East event last year. No specific details about the project were revealed back then except for what the purpose of such an implementation will be. According to the report, the search giant through this would be able to provide users with specific mobile content rather than extracting the data from desktop content in order to create mobile rankings.

Google’s Trend Analyst Gary Illyes has also confirmed that the new mobile index will be released in a few months.

Google’s recent survey suggested that 53 per cent of the users are most probable of leaving a website if it hasn’t loaded in up to 3 seconds.

In fact, Google’s recently introduced AMP Project addresses the issue of slow site loading on the internet. It apparently takes less than one second for an AMP page to load from Google Search thereby saving 10 times more data as compared to an equivalent non-AMP page, said Google in a blog post.

Google’s AMP page was announced last year and there have been over 600 million AMP documents since then. The company’s overall objective to deliver a better mobile search experience with the implementation of a new search index thus, comes across as a natural move.