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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by klodolph on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @03:24PM (#17718672)
> Can the Google bot that crawls the site not perform this same validation?

From what I am aware, in practice there are a large number of sites which provide different content or different behavior in response to the GoogleBot user-agent.

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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by kodablah on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @03:28PM (#17718699)
And yet we are still OK with its results everywhere else right?
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Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate by dumbfounder on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @04:30PM (#17719200)
The benefits are nebulous in other instances. Here they are much more concrete, and thus will undoubtedly (in my mind) be abused to a much higher degree.
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