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AnotherCat · 04-21-2015, 10:02 PM

For myself, I find the article quite misleading and over dramatic as my reading of it infers that all searches are affected, whereas Google have made it amply clear that is only searches made from small devices e.g. phones, where the prioritising will take place. Searches from PCs and tablets will not be affected.

EDIT: Been wondering about your first comment and had a play. Also how do E Ink readers appear to Google, I suspect as a tablet, but I don't know? Even on my little 3.5 inch screen phone Kobo's site is very easy to browse even though it does not offer to serve me a script for mobile; everything wraps fine and maybe if they were going to keep thumbnails of covers then not too much else they could do compared to that?

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AnotherCat .... Posts: 1,547 Karma: 18068960 Join Date: May 2012 Device: ....	For myself, I find the article quite misleading and over dramatic as my reading of it infers that all searches are affected, whereas Google have made it amply clear that is only searches made from small devices e.g. phones, where the prioritising will take place. Searches from PCs and tablets will not be affected. EDIT: Been wondering about your first comment and had a play. Also how do E Ink readers appear to Google, I suspect as a tablet, but I don't know? Even on my little 3.5 inch screen phone Kobo's site is very easy to browse even though it does not offer to serve me a script for mobile; everything wraps fine and maybe if they were going to keep thumbnails of covers then not too much else they could do compared to that? Last edited by AnotherCat; 04-21-2015 at 10:50 PM.