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This experience basically ruined mobile Google for me and caused me to switch my entire search engine to avoid it. It is completely wrong to optimize for viewi
by makecheck 10y ago
This experience basically ruined mobile Google for me and caused me to switch my entire search engine to avoid it.
It is completely wrong to optimize for viewing while breaking expectations for anything else. COPYING THE URL is very frequently the next thing I want to do, and AMP destroys this. For example, when looking up recipes, I often create a multi-device-sync note containing the URL, where I add a shopping list and whatever other notes I want to make; it makes no sense to be forced to copy a mobile-only, Google-domain link for almost every search result when next time I might be opening the page from my desktop machine!
Another major problem is that the only indication of this hijack is a little lightning-bolt and "AMP" next to certain links. I guarantee most users don’t know what that even means so problems will be blamed on “the site I clicked” and not “Google”.