Re:Justice Department meeting state AG offices Tuesday to di...
by lern_too_spel on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:06AM
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If the AMP page doesn't have the content you want and the non-AMP page does, that is the publisher's problem and the search engine's problem for displaying an inferior page. It is not a problem with AMP, which usually has the information I need. Similarly, if a mobile-optimized page does not have the same content as a desktop page, that is also a problem with the publisher and the search engine. The same for if an RSS entry does not have the full content of an article or if a transit feed does not match the data that is on a transit provider's web page.
> the real one, not the AMP one
Is that the mobile URL or the desktop URL? This problem has existed for ages. It's the user agent's problem to give a UI to share the canonical URL if that's what the user wants.
Re:Justice Department meeting state AG offices Tuesday to di...
by proximitysauce on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @03:45PM
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> If the AMP page doesn't have the content you want and the non-AMP page does, that is the publisher's problem and the search engine's problem for displaying an inferior page.
Actually it ends up being my problem. I don't want multiple versions of the same thing. AMP is yet another format and it's one that is outside of normal web browsing workflow.
Re:Justice Department meeting state AG offices Tuesday to di...
by lern_too_spel on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:24AM
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> Actually it ends up being my problem. I don't want multiple versions of the same thing.
Then don't make AMP, mobile-optimized web pages, RSS, Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, etc.
If you want wide distribution, you have to support multiple formats. At least AMP, like RSS and mobile-optimized pages, is open, meaning that anybody can (and many link aggregators do) consume it.
I don't need an intermediary popup page between me and the destination I seek.