Fight back against Google AMP (2018)

Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by pembrook on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:49PM (#21704708)

Not true. Google favors AMP content in “articles for you” on chrome mobile, as well as featured story carousels on search and inside Google discover. All of these areas can be a massive firehose of traffic.

If you make a living from a content site, you have to play ball and create AMP versions of all your pages.

OR, you can choose to lose to your competitors. Let’s stop pretending like that’s really a choice, or that any sizable share of users will ever switch to DuckDuckGo.

This is where we need government to step in and regulate Google’s de facto monopoly on search.

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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by KirinDave on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:36PM (#21706632)

Has someone demonstrated that if you make a static page with similar characteristics to AMP on a different CDN, that this doesn't get similar placement?

I'd be more inclined to side with publishers here if AMP was the only way to get this. But as an awful lot of content sites are run by folks very mad that they can't run their own invasive tracking and analytics, my sympathy is limited.

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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by pembrook on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:43PM (#21707440)

Just click on any link inside of chrome's "articles for you" on your phone and look at the url.

I haven't seen a single non-AMP article there, and I've been checking for a year.

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