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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by oarsinsync on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:50AM (#21703843)
If the respect was for the receiving device or connection speed, the metric used to determine priority of results would be size of payload / speed of delivery, rather than if the technology / hosting was google-owned.
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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by afiori on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:56AM (#21703904)
As far as I recall they fixed that, now the problem is that they the measure for speed they use does some weird tricks around partial loads; as long as you display _something_ soon they are happy and the fact that a page might be useless for many seconds is weighted less
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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by shadowgovt on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:57AM (#21703928)
That matches with human psychology of perception, IIUC.
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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by afiori on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:56PM (#21704804)
Yes, I understand why they would want to do it. But it also mean that I am staring at a unusable page...
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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by shadowgovt on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:57PM (#21704823)
But the alternative is you'd be staring at a useragent-provided crawler for N seconds to get to a usable page, right?
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