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Our BFF Google announced last week plans to use a website’s mobile version as the primary content source for ranking sites for its search engine’s results, it’s a move that Google engineers have hinted towards for the past year at several Internet Marketing conferences.

A few years ago, in order to encourage companies to support mobile versions of their websites, Google started adding a “Mobile Friendly” tag next to certain search results and later started ranking these sites above desktop-only content.

Today, most websites are already mobile friendly, and earlier this year, Google removed the “Mobile Friendly” tag from search results, saying that over 85% of the sites it indexes include a mobile version, making the tag redundant.

Furthermore, a also revealed that searches from mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets surpassed desktop searches for the first time last month, in October.