Google Search started focusing more and more on mobile devices starting in 2015
Google Search started focusing more and more on mobile devices starting in 2015, with the mobile friendly update. Then, in 2016, we started mobile-first crawling and indexing. This allowed Google Search to index the content that users would see, when they access the website on their mobile phone. Crawling and indexing as a smartphone was a big change for Google’s infrastructure, but also a change for the public web: a mobile web…