How will Passage Indexing effect SEO?

If you’re from SEO (search engine optimization) community or have a basic understanding of how web search engines work, you're probably aware that Google ranks content based on more than 200 factors for each search query. Furthermore, Google's search engine algorithms are updated several times per day, making SEO a never-ending task. While the majority of updates are minor and have little effect on the search systems, some are major and have significant SEO implications. “Passage-based Indexing” is a new feature that has piqued the interest of both content creators and SEO enthusiasts. It all started in October 2021, when Google, the world's most popular search engine, announced a new way to "identify individual passages of a web page to better understand how important a page is to a search." The development, which was dubbed a "breakthrough," soon became a hot subject, and it continues to be so.   So, what is Passage Indexing, exactly? Googl...