Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages

Re:Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for bui... by crunchlibrarian on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:09PM (#17923199)

This "hide the url from the user" is exactly what America Online did back in the day to try and keep everyone from leaving their garden. I remember being offended by it and trying to explain to people what that meant and that they should cancel their AOL accounts over it, with little success.

How did Google get this bad? Why are we letting the internet devolve back to the early 90s?

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Re:Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for bui... by AJ007 on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:06PM (#17923428)

Google is panicking over user behavior changes. Fewer people using the traditional search, more people using voice search, more people using a mobile web browser which they can't control. Someone is plotting the use of paid search ads in 2028 and it doesn't look pretty.

If Google doesn't aggressively pursue things which jack up their revenue, they switch from a growth company to a non-growth company sooner rather than later. Instead of a P/E of 52, maybe thats a P/E of 10 or 20. If that happens too soon, then their ability to attract and pay talent diminishes significantly. Thus, "don't be evil" is replaced with the ends justifying the means.

The only big reprieve we have here is that if Google comes up with some wacky new idea which breaks w3c standards and Apple doesn't go along with it, it probably doesn't get adapted.

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Re:Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for bui... by refulgentis on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:14PM (#17923216)

To be honest I think that's jumping to conclusions based on an article that's absolutely leaping to conclusions. It's highly unlikely Google's web crawling team conspired with AMP to force the web to convert to AMP

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Re:Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for bui... by walterbell on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:21PM (#17923242)

Are you replying to the correct comment? Was that claim made in this thread?

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Re:Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for bui... by refulgentis on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @10:38PM (#17923547)

This thread is in response to a section of the article where this claim was made

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Re:Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for bui... by IAmGraydon on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:27PM (#17923266)

That claim was the basis of the entire article. Did you read it?

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Re:Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for bui... by tyingq on Thursday September 06, 2018 @09:48AM (#17926220)

Yep. For those not familiar with the heyday of AOL: "Type in AOL keyword XYZ to buy an XYZ"...where AOL sold the keyword to the highest bidder. They weren't selling the top spot in a list, it was exclusive placement.

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