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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by metalliqaz on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:14PM (#15066940)
Sorry for being that guy, but what is AMP in this context?
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by joatmon-snoo on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:22PM (#15066998)
AMP, as pushed by Google, is essentially Google re-hosting a pared-down, mobile-friendly version of your site.

Alex Kras has two blog posts that got a lot of traction early on that highlighted some issues with this trend [1] [2].

[1] https://www.alexkras.com/google-may-be-stealing-your-mobile-...

[2] https://www.alexkras.com/please-make-google-amp-optional/

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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by metalliqaz on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:31PM (#15067107)
Thanks much, I was wondering how AMP made him suspicious of google.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by nailer on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:35PM (#15068665)
Essentially Google only allow Google-hosted AMP content in their search carousel. You could create an AMP (or otherwise fast) page on your own CDN and Google won't show it unless it's on their domain.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by FuriouslyAdrift on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:22PM (#15066994)
Accelerated Mobile Pages It's a weird accelerator thing for mobile. I've never quite figured out its use case except to hoover up more metrics for Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages

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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by amrrs on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:08PM (#15067422)
The use case is simple: Transcend through adblockers and show ads in mobiles. Mobile users primarily use adblockers because websites suck their data and also speed. AMP ensures faster content delivery and lite data and also comes with ads.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by nailer on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:36PM (#15068668)
Doesn't explain why they don't allow you to host AMP pages on your own domain and still be in the search carousel.
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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by jszymborski on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:19PM (#15066977)
https://www.ampproject.org/

(first hit on DDG.gg for '"amp" google')

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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by robteix on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:21PM (#15066992)
I'm not the parent but I'm sure they mean Accelerated Mobile Pages[0]

[0] https://www.ampproject.org/

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Re:Statistics Professor Just Banned by Google: Here Is His S... by jwong_ on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:18PM (#15066973)
> The Accelerated Mobile Pages Project (AMP) is an online publishing format, created by Google
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