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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by three_seagrass on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:45PM (#24149789)
Your link doesn't say that Google forces AMP on publishers. It shows that Google displays an icon next to AMP results for mobile searches to indicate the page is mobile friendly. Bing does the exact same thing: https://blogs.bing.com/Webmaster-Blog/September-2018/Introdu...

This is not enforcing AMP on publishers in the results, and the argument that it is by using icons falls under the 'it's kind of the same' category.

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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by rhizome on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:02PM (#24152782)
It says they use site speed in ranking, and, well, I'm sure it would come as no surprise if Google's (largely) having served a page/site increases the speed just enough.
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Re:Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store by three_seagrass on Friday August 14, 2020 @02:03PM (#24161143)
If you can beat AMP load times, you will likely rank higher than AMP pages from the speed factor.

This is how you do agnostic search results, and it is not putting the thumb on the scale as you're implying.

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