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Google is not a charity, but their core business - Search - depends on the web having content they can index. This is a play to defend their existing business,

Google is not a charity, but their core business - Search - depends on the web having content they can index. This is a play to defend their existing business, not a revenue opportunity. I think AMP is a good thing for the mobile web. It makes web pages actually usable. People get a bit wound up about the fact that Google hosts the content on their CDN, but there is always a real URL backing it, the content isn't locked into Google's platform.

feikname 9y ago
> It makes web pages actually usable. Overriding the default scroll behavior, so as to make the user have to scroll to the very top of the page to display the browser address bar is really annoying though. Besides that, I often do prefer AMP pages due to them loading faster and wasting less data.