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Re:Google AMP is bad for e-commerce by cramforce on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @02:14PM (#15029776)
The carousel ranks in position one if it is determined to be the best result. It can rank way below. https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook is a good way to see that.

Original article was about e-commerce. The Top Stories carousel is not relevant to e-commerce since it only contains news articles.

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Re:Google AMP is bad for e-commerce by kuschku on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @02:48PM (#15030054)
> It can rank way below. https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook is a good way to see that.

It ranks at #2. With articles that otherwise end up at #14 (just checked).

That’s a 12 place ranking boost. You can’t get that anywhere else.

> Original article was about e-commerce.

You’re competing with ebay, and ebay uses AMP on all pages so that they get the #1 spot with the carousel.

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Re:Google AMP is bad for e-commerce by cramforce on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:44PM (#15031219)
Do you have a link where an ebay page shows up in a carousel?
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