Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten

Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by dingo_bat on Sunday November 19, 2017 @06:01AM (#15733358)

Ironically the bing news page is several times faster to load than the google news page. The difference is more pronounced on mobile. I don't know why, but it's funny.

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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by jacksmith21006 on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:10PM (#15734692)

Not my experience. But also Google gets news just up faster. Next time something big happens in the world try Bing and Google and you will see a big difference.

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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by dingo_bat on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:39PM (#15734882)

> Not my experience.

It's not hard, click here: https://news.google.com/news/

Then click here: https://www.bing.com/news

Try it on your phone for an exaggerated experience.

Also, except breaking news, there is no difference I could find. Except that google news takes me to some annoying amp pages for some links.

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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by lern_too_spel on Sunday November 19, 2017 @11:11AM (#15734433)

Why is that ironic?

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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by dingo_bat on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:41PM (#15734901)

Because Google news is notorious for using and promoting amp links, and the entire point of that is to load fast. But they lose to a simple non-amp webpage.

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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by lern_too_spel on Sunday November 19, 2017 @05:44PM (#15736370)

Google News itself is not an AMP page, nor does it promote AMP pages, as you claim.

As I pointed out in my original comment, Bing also uses an AMP cache and sends users to AMP pages from the Bing app, which is why saying that anything different about them is ironic makes little sense.

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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by dingo_bat on Sunday November 19, 2017 @09:53PM (#15737421)

> Google News itself is not an AMP page

OK, but it hacks the scrolling in the same way amp pages do. So I assumed it was amp.

> promote AMP pages, as you claim.

100% it promotes amp pages.

> Bing also uses an AMP cache and sends users to AMP pages from the Bing app

I am not talking about bing "app". I don't know if such a thing exists. I am talking about www.bing.com/news. Click that link and bask in the glory of blazing fast performance.

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Re:Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten by lern_too_spel on Monday November 20, 2017 @12:33AM (#15738027)

> I assumed it was amp.

That's the first of your problems.

> 100% it promotes amp pages.

When I go to Google News, there are no pages marked as AMP. In my original comment, I talked about AMP results in news searches on Google search, which do exist, just like in the Bing app. Those provide a better experience for me, and I suspect 99% of all users, than the AMP-less DDG results, which is why Google and Bing show them.

> I am not talking about bing "app". I don't know if such a thing exists.

https://blogs.bing.com/search/September-2016/bing-app-joins-...

You've demonstrated an even poorer understanding of AMP than the person I originally responded to.

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