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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by IfOnlyYouKnew on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:22PM (#22111102)
So the user sees your URL, you're getting the revenue from the ads that are shown, sharing will share your URL, your statistics work flawlessly.

In other words: if it behaves exactly as a page hosted on your site (just faster), why do you care?

I'm getting the impression that HN users care a whole lot about seeing the request in the nginx log they are tailing.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by gpvos on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:38PM (#22111257)
Well, as a user, I care about not announcing loudly to Google every single step I take on the web.
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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by lern_too_spel on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:47PM (#22111369)
Then why are you searching on Google? That's where you would see an AMP page served from a Google AMP cache. If you searched on Bing, you would get AMP pages served from a Bing AMP cache instead.
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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by bashinator on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:19PM (#22113275)
In the past year, I've seen amp pages increasingly often linked from all sorts of places (reddit, FB, here, etc) besides Google's search results.
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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by lern_too_spel on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:37PM (#22113387)
AMP pages hosted by the publisher, Google's AMP cache, Bing's AMP cache, or some other company's AMP cache? GGP was complaining about sending any information to Google. Only one of those options does so.
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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by gpvos on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:10PM (#22111602)
I am obviously not.
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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by manigandham on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:26PM (#22111783)
It's not always faster. There are plenty of performance and usability issues with AMP pages, not to mention all the extra development effort needing to maintain a different version of the site just for a few mobile browsers.
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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by modo_mario on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:02AM (#22115841)
It's anticompetitive af.
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