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Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go?
Back a few months ago, I saw them everywhere in my google searches, nowadays they don't show up in any of my google searches. Even if I use different devices, incognito, vpn, etc.
Even the popular websites that supported them heavily dont show up in my google searches, anyone have insights about this?
- Maha-pudma 6y agoI don't know but I'm glad they are gone if that's the case. I only use Google very rarely these days and if an amp page presents itself to me umatrix completely blocks it and I take the actual URL from the amp URL and visit the actual site. I hate what Google is trying to do to the web!
- or29544 6y agoAh, they are still there. They don't need to start with amp now. Didn't you read the latest articles? They are just disguised.
- franze 6y agoStill there I.e.: https://www.google.com/search?q=layoffs&rlz=1CDGOYI_enAT855AT855&oq=layoffs&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i60.7711j0j4&hl=en-GB&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=layoffs&rlz=1CDGOYI_enAT855A... on mobile crome, ios device Amp not marked in the news section (1 of 3) 3 times in the organic results, marked with a flash icon. The day amp goes away is a day I celebrate. Huge ongoing project overhead for a subpart user experience (and crappy brittle technology) all in the name of SEO.
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- erwinh 6y agostill get them quite often :(
- mdrachuk 6y agoThey should never come back.
- wayneftw 6y agoAMP pages are still there if you are still using Google on mobile. I switched to duckduckgo on my phone for now. I'm thinking about building a search page where the query goes to my home desktop computer where I run headless Chrome to scrape results from all the search engines and then forward them back to my phone. Unfortunately, Apple will not fucking let me use a custom search engine in Safari on the iPhone, probably because they're in cahoots with Google and China to bring about a new world order where nobody has any freedom whatsoever. xD
- majewsky 6y agoDo alternative iOS browsers allow exchanging the search engine? As far as I'm aware Apple only locks them into using WebKit.
- wayneftw 6y agoWebKit is a browser engine, not a search engine.
- jjpe 6y agoYou could just serve a webpage that queries your desktop, and visit that with the browser on your phone. Slightly more work, but definitely viable. You can even make a shortcut on the home screen of your phone that automatically navigates to your custom search page.