Re:Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing
by mynegation on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:25PM
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It got annoying enough for me to switch my search to bing.com everywhere, including Google's own browser. My two main complaints: 1. Once I am on AMP page, most of the time I want to click around the site and I cannot do that - feels like a cage. 2. URL obfuscates the site name and article title (not completely, but definitely adds visual noise)
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2a) I want to get to the site, not another Google property.
Penalize my search listing all you like, but none of my stuff will be hosted elsewhere.
I thought publishers learned their lessons here - use someone else's printing press, and ultimately, they control what's printed.
This is the part that I don't understand. Why are publishers so eager to give away control of their meal-ticket?
They can always turn AMP off if Google does something evil.
And lose their ranking? It won't be as simple as "just turn it off"
Re:Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing
by the_watcher on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:01PM
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The lack of navigation within the AMP site is the reason I avoid clicking an AMP link if at all possible
Agree. I did exactly this a couple of days ago when trying to get the URL of a BBC news article. I had never used bing before that.
I don't think I've ever seen an AMP page on a google search result, so either I'm searching for very different things than you are, or there's some browser configuration that doesn't show tons of AMP sites on Google.
I usually browse with JS off (though I think not on Google) and the standard suite of privacy apps - uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc, and I usually use the version of Google with Instant disabled. Maybe that helps.
Why don't you give DuckDuckGo a shot?
I was thinking earlier, why don't mozilla or the FSF take a shot at building their own search engine? Imagine how many projects the monetization could fund?