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I haven't seen an AMP page in over 2 years, and I use Google search a lot. Anytime I saw one I clicked away in disgust, so maybe they're filtered for me. The p

by jotm 7y ago

I haven't seen an AMP page in over 2 years, and I use Google search a lot. Anytime I saw one I clicked away in disgust, so maybe they're filtered for me. The problem is all the people and big websites that don't seem to care at all about their own content pushing amp as some sort of great solution for website speed. Sad, but it seems to have died down.

adventured 7y ago
AMP results are persistently - as in, without exception - at the top of all results for any search that has an active news event attached to it. Right now nine of the first ten results for "Walmart shooting" in incognito mode stock Chrome on Android, are AMP articles. Do that search, if you're not seeing those AMP articles then you're doing something very unusual with your setup.
- radley 7y ago
  I tried your example and I'm not seeing AMP links on Firefox nor Chrome for Mac. Either I've changed a preference somewhere or UBlock Origin is bypassing them.
  - ben_jones 7y ago
    They said Chrome for Android. That might suggest AMP is only getting shoved at mobile users.
    - untog 7y ago
      It is specially only for mobile users (as currently implemented, at least)
  - ori_b 7y ago
    The M in amp is for 'mobile'.
    - geofft 7y ago
      In particular, in Chrome for Mac, if you go to developer tools and enable mobile emulation (click the second icon at the top left of the developer tools window), then go to google.com and do a search for a current news topic, you'll see AMP results in your desktop browser.
- jotm 7y ago
  Oh yeah, I don't read the news. If anything is important enough, I'll visit the Reddit live thread, or if it's not time sensitive, it will be in the news 2-3 weeks later, at which point it's probably worth reading. So major news outlets are still on the AMP bandwagon? And they complain about revenue...
  - untog 7y ago
    > So major news outlets are still on the AMP bandwagon? They don't have a choice. If they aren't then Google won't show them, and they won't get any traffic.
    - deleted 7y ago
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  - geofft 7y ago
    > If anything is important enough, I'll visit the Reddit live thread Reddit uses AMP. If you search via Google for a Reddit thread, you'll get an AMP link. I sometimes see Redditors posting AMP links to other Reddit threads, presumably because Google search is more effective than Reddit's own search. > or if it's not time sensitive, it will be in the news 2-3 weeks later, at which point it's probably worth reading Google shows AMP for all search results, not just the current-news carousel. If I search for 'Sandy Hook shooting' on my phone, I see a Wikipedia onebox, the first search result which is Wikipedia (no AMP), a handful of news articles from the last few weeks, and then the remainder of the actual search results: a Business Insider article from December 2018 (AMP), an ABC article from 2014 (AMP), a Reuters article from a few weeks ago (AMP), an NBC article from a few weeks ago (AMP), a CBS News article from 2017 (AMP), a Britannica article (no AMP), and two YouTube videos (no AMP).
    - jotm 7y ago
      Go straight to Reddit, or better yet old.reddit.com :) I tried that search, none are AMP for me. Tried "walmart shooting", none are AMP, even CNN live updates. Android/Firefox. Tried Chrome, not signed into Google, no AdBlock, still No AMP. Strange... May be Internet speed related?
buboard 7y ago
Are you using your phone? I see them all the time (and its pretty easy to notice with the hiding of the address bar).
- icebraining 7y ago
  Maybe they're using Firefox for Android, Google doesn't seem to be pushing AMP links to it (yet?).
  - buboard 7y ago
    I dont know about that but they do push them to Safari on iphone
- jotm 7y ago
  Phone and tablet, Firefox (logged into Google, with adblock), Chrome (not logged in, no AdBlock), no AMP. May be Internet speed related? No idea
- dnh44 7y ago
  I use Safari pretty much exclusively on both macOS and iOS and I saw my first amp page a couple of months ago. My first thought was oh there’s something different about this page followed by the realisation that it’s my first amp page. Since then I’ve only seen two more. All three time I’ve clicked away almost immediately. I think the reason I don’t see them much is because I don’t use google for search often, and I never use google news.

by jotm 7y ago

adventured 7y ago

AMP results are persistently - as in, without exception - at the top of all results for any search that has an active news event attached to it. Right now nine of the first ten results for "Walmart shooting" in incognito mode stock Chrome on Android, are AMP articles. Do that search, if you're not seeing those AMP articles then you're doing something very unusual with your setup.

radley 7y ago
I tried your example and I'm not seeing AMP links on Firefox nor Chrome for Mac. Either I've changed a preference somewhere or UBlock Origin is bypassing them.
- ben_jones 7y ago
  They said Chrome for Android. That might suggest AMP is only getting shoved at mobile users.
  - untog 7y ago
    It is specially only for mobile users (as currently implemented, at least)
- ori_b 7y ago
  The M in amp is for 'mobile'.
  - geofft 7y ago
    In particular, in Chrome for Mac, if you go to developer tools and enable mobile emulation (click the second icon at the top left of the developer tools window), then go to google.com and do a search for a current news topic, you'll see AMP results in your desktop browser.
jotm 7y ago
Oh yeah, I don't read the news. If anything is important enough, I'll visit the Reddit live thread, or if it's not time sensitive, it will be in the news 2-3 weeks later, at which point it's probably worth reading. So major news outlets are still on the AMP bandwagon? And they complain about revenue...
- untog 7y ago
  > So major news outlets are still on the AMP bandwagon? They don't have a choice. If they aren't then Google won't show them, and they won't get any traffic.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
- geofft 7y ago
  > If anything is important enough, I'll visit the Reddit live thread Reddit uses AMP. If you search via Google for a Reddit thread, you'll get an AMP link. I sometimes see Redditors posting AMP links to other Reddit threads, presumably because Google search is more effective than Reddit's own search. > or if it's not time sensitive, it will be in the news 2-3 weeks later, at which point it's probably worth reading Google shows AMP for all search results, not just the current-news carousel. If I search for 'Sandy Hook shooting' on my phone, I see a Wikipedia onebox, the first search result which is Wikipedia (no AMP), a handful of news articles from the last few weeks, and then the remainder of the actual search results: a Business Insider article from December 2018 (AMP), an ABC article from 2014 (AMP), a Reuters article from a few weeks ago (AMP), an NBC article from a few weeks ago (AMP), a CBS News article from 2017 (AMP), a Britannica article (no AMP), and two YouTube videos (no AMP).
  - jotm 7y ago
    Go straight to Reddit, or better yet old.reddit.com :) I tried that search, none are AMP for me. Tried "walmart shooting", none are AMP, even CNN live updates. Android/Firefox. Tried Chrome, not signed into Google, no AdBlock, still No AMP. Strange... May be Internet speed related?

buboard 7y ago

Are you using your phone? I see them all the time (and its pretty easy to notice with the hiding of the address bar).

icebraining 7y ago
Maybe they're using Firefox for Android, Google doesn't seem to be pushing AMP links to it (yet?).
- buboard 7y ago
  I dont know about that but they do push them to Safari on iphone
jotm 7y ago
Phone and tablet, Firefox (logged into Google, with adblock), Chrome (not logged in, no AdBlock), no AMP. May be Internet speed related? No idea
dnh44 7y ago
I use Safari pretty much exclusively on both macOS and iOS and I saw my first amp page a couple of months ago. My first thought was oh there’s something different about this page followed by the realisation that it’s my first amp page. Since then I’ve only seen two more. All three time I’ve clicked away almost immediately. I think the reason I don’t see them much is because I don’t use google for search often, and I never use google news.