Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go?

Posted by kevindeasis on Saturday May 09, 2020 @01:07AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Back a few months ago, I saw them everywhere in my google searches, nowadays they don't show up in any of my google searches. Even if I use different devices, incognito, vpn, etc.

Even the popular websites that supported them heavily dont show up in my google searches, anyone have insights about this?

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by franze on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:07AM (#23122871)

Still there I.e.: https://www.google.com/search?q=layoffs&rlz=1CDGOYI_enAT855A...

on mobile crome, ios device Amp not marked in the news section (1 of 3)

3 times in the organic results, marked with a flash icon.

The day amp goes away is a day I celebrate. Huge ongoing project overhead for a subpart user experience (and crappy brittle technology) all in the name of SEO.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by wayneftw on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:25AM (#23124513)

AMP pages are still there if you are still using Google on mobile.

I switched to duckduckgo on my phone for now.

I'm thinking about building a search page where the query goes to my home desktop computer where I run headless Chrome to scrape results from all the search engines and then forward them back to my phone. Unfortunately, Apple will not fucking let me use a custom search engine in Safari on the iPhone, probably because they're in cahoots with Google and China to bring about a new world order where nobody has any freedom whatsoever. xD

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by jjpe on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:16AM (#23124870)

You could just serve a webpage that queries your desktop, and visit that with the browser on your phone. Slightly more work, but definitely viable. You can even make a shortcut on the home screen of your phone that automatically navigates to your custom search page.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by majewsky on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:59AM (#23124739)

Do alternative iOS browsers allow exchanging the search engine? As far as I'm aware Apple only locks them into using WebKit.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by wayneftw on Saturday May 09, 2020 @10:18AM (#23124882)

WebKit is a browser engine, not a search engine.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by or29544 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @02:57AM (#23122838)

Ah, they are still there. They don't need to start with amp now. Didn't you read the latest articles? They are just disguised.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by Maha-pudma on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:04AM (#23122861)

I don't know but I'm glad they are gone if that's the case. I only use Google very rarely these days and if an amp page presents itself to me umatrix completely blocks it and I take the actual URL from the amp URL and visit the actual site.

I hate what Google is trying to do to the web!

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by or29544 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:07AM (#23122870)

They are not gone but yep, just use firefox like I do (and duckduckgo) and you are home free. AMP works only in chrome and are searched only with google search.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by onyva on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:59AM (#23123020)

Didn’t know that. Another point for Firefox for sure.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by mdrachuk on Saturday May 09, 2020 @07:33AM (#23123845)

They should never come back.

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Re:Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go? by erwinh on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:16AM (#23122895)

still get them quite often :(

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