It blows my mind that anyone thinks that’s an acceptable idea.
If I click one of the links, then yes, I absolutely expect the publisher to know I did.
>Or is it that you don't want snippets to appear in the search results and just want a list of links without any evidence for why they might be good matches for your query?
Is that how you feel about regular search results?
> Is that how you feel about regular search results?
Regular search results have snippets.
>Regular search results have snippets.
Right, and I was asking about the search results, not the snippets that accompany them. That is to say, the part with the blue title, green link, and the few lines in black displayed from the page that are displayed ten at a time, not the snippets that accompany them at the top of the page. Unless you were just using 'snippets' as a general term to mean the same thing that I mean by search results, in which case you were just repeating the content of my own question back to me.
They still know when their content is being consumed. They just don't know when their content is being searched for until the user clicks their link, exactly like a snippet. Does that make sense now? My point was that search engines already show cached portions of the page. Read the parent comment of my first "snippet" comment to understand why I was making that point.
What’s shown in the URL bar has long been divorced from the HTTP request(s) that are made.
> It blows my mind that anyone thinks that’s an acceptable idea
It blows your mind that different people have difference opinions and values than you?
Also, a provider uses a CDN at their discretion. Giving them the ability to invalidate or update cached records at times of their choosing. Or remove the CDN entirely if they choose to.
This is Google using their weight to be anti-competitive and fall further down the anti-trust rabbit hole.
I know it seems impossible but nobody has to use Google.
Are there any copyright implications of amp? They're essentially republishing your property.
Does the original publisher get their ad revenue?
Given context and full knowledge of the issues involved? Yes, absolutely. For this particular issue anyway.
> Or maybe it’ll come from a CDN rather than origin.
That’s not a problem, since the URL and where it points to is still decided by the content owners.
Fifteen years ago, if you asked me how google search would look, I would have responded “mostly the same, maybe they’ll have cool features like asking me which meaning of ‘converse’ i wanted: the shoe brand or the logical relation.”
Instead, they’ve only subtracted functionality from the query engine (no more domain blocking), discouraged you from clicking through to sites by automatically scraping and rehosting them as “semantic” results, and now they’re trying to actively acquire 100% of the outbound traffic. Fuck google.