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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by cossatot on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:56PM (#13440580)
Kinda makes you wonder if people will stop using Google search if it keeps them within the walled garden of other Google services. It wouldn't surprise me if Google is the next AOL in a decade or two, for reasons including this one.
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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by theWatcher37 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @07:07PM (#13440650)
If AMP is an indicator of their long term strategy AOL2.0 is definitely in the cards.
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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by Spooky23 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @10:54PM (#13441629)
I think many people are living in a Facebook world. They are clearly AOL 2.0.

I always thought AMP was a way to get some visibility into Facebook sharing traffic.

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Re:Google Has Started Penalizing Mobile Websites with Intrus... by lmm on Friday January 20, 2017 @06:32AM (#13443065)
What's the open-web alternative? I've switched my phone search to Bing because I'm so frustrated with AMP, but the search results are pretty poor to the extent that I manually search google a few times a week.
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