Google Now Offering Index of Pages Optimized for the Mobile

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Google has released (beta) a new service for mobile web searchers that allows searching an index of pages that have been, "optimized by their publishers for the small screen."

Google does a special Web crawl to create a separate index of XHTML pages, [Deep] Nishar director of wireless product management for Google, said; he wouldn't disclose how many pages were in the Mobile Web index, but said, "Many sites are using formats that are more conducive to a better user experience on mobile devices." Users can point their mobile browsers to Google's search site, type in the query, then select Mobile Web (beta) as the search option.

Google's other mobile services including web search, image search, and local search remain available.