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I wish Google would just heavily weight fast-loading, responsively-designed pages in pagerank and call it a day. There's no need for a weird problematic proprie

I wish Google would just heavily weight fast-loading, responsively-designed pages in pagerank and call it a day. There's no need for a weird problematic proprietary format.. It just smacks of a power grab to keep visitors on google.com.

WalterSear 8y ago
It's a power grab.
davegauer 8y ago
A thousand times yes. If Google actually cared about end-user "experience", the health of the Web, and accessibility, they would do exactly as you've described.
jefftk 8y ago
> There's no need for a weird problematic proprietary format. The reason we need AMP now is that you can't otherwise preload a page in a privacy-preserving way. Webpackaging will allow doing this without AMP though: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md (Disclosure: I work at Google on making ads be AMP.)
- pdimitar 8y ago
  Are you sure this is going to be allowed at Google? Policy and all that. They don't exactly look to be condoning open standards in this regard. Would be happy if I am wrong though.
  - jefftk 8y ago
    Google is one of the main groups working on it. For example, the draft https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yasskin-dispatch-web-packaging-00 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yasskin-dispatch-web-packa... is by a Google employee.