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> ...remove the AMP requirement from Top Stories eligibility. Google continues to support AMP, and will continue to link to AMP pages when available. Is this G

> ...remove the AMP requirement from Top Stories eligibility. Google continues to support AMP, and will continue to link to AMP pages when available. Is this Google backing down on the AMP nonsense?

dmitriid 6y ago
I'd say "I'll believe it when I see it" :)
pachico 6y ago
At last!
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eitland 6y ago
Something might be changing inside Google. - Last year after 10 years of utterly irrelevant and insulting ads they've now started to show me relevant ads. I might even have clicked one or two as it was kind of interesting. - Twice in the last six weeks when I hit !g in ddg to see if I was luckier in Google, Google delighted me by actually showing exactly the results I wanted. For those who are too young to remember old Google I'll try to explain: normally when I search with Google the last ten years if the topic wasn't completely mainstream, Google would twist my words to mean something that they could show more results for. Old Google showed what you searched for in an almost intelligent way, and this is what I have seen again no, for the first time in ~10 years, and not only once buy twice! - And now this: they'll stop trying to shove AMP down our throats..? Let me guess: - someone is threatening to sue Google - and Googlers are tired of getting rightfully roasted for something stupid Goolge does, every single time they show up here
- bouke 6y ago
  DDG has reduced my need for Google Search for about 99% now. I even dread having to adding “!g” to my search as I have a growing dislike for Google’s grey UX patterns.
  - eitland 6y ago
    > I even dread having to adding “!g” to my search as I have a growing dislike for Google’s grey UX patterns. Same here, and often the difference has been down to randomness, but lately - as I mentioned - I have had not just one but two times that Google actually behaved like Google from < 2009.
- hinkley 6y ago
  Irony is that if I want to shop online I have to use Google because DDG pretty much only shows Amazon. If I wanted Amazon I'd just be on amazon.com not ddg.com, fellas.
- pdimitar 6y ago
  I sure hope you are right. It would be about time, too.
  - eitland 6y ago
    Next we know Reader is back ;-)
ComputerGuru 6y ago
I think it’s more about the content they can get. This’ll only happen when there are no AMP links so it’s still a tragedy of the commons, the only winner is Google.
ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Google is under investigation by 48 state governors and the Department of Justice, not to mention all of the various scrutiny in other countries and governing bodies such as the European Union. Special-casing the top search results for sites that implement a Google-proprietary replacement web format that lets them host the content on their own servers is a really bad look with all of that looming. I doubt Google will give up on AMP, it provides them way more control over the Internet than they've ever had before, but search result ads, knowledge graph/carousel content, and the top results of search are under incredible scrutiny right now.

> ...remove the AMP requirement from Top Stories eligibility. Google continues to support AMP, and will continue to link to AMP pages when available. Is this Google backing down on the AMP nonsense?

dmitriid 6y ago

I'd say "I'll believe it when I see it" :)

pachico 6y ago

At last!

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eitland 6y ago

Something might be changing inside Google. - Last year after 10 years of utterly irrelevant and insulting ads they've now started to show me relevant ads. I might even have clicked one or two as it was kind of interesting. - Twice in the last six weeks when I hit !g in ddg to see if I was luckier in Google, Google delighted me by actually showing exactly the results I wanted. For those who are too young to remember old Google I'll try to explain: normally when I search with Google the last ten years if the topic wasn't completely mainstream, Google would twist my words to mean something that they could show more results for. Old Google showed what you searched for in an almost intelligent way, and this is what I have seen again no, for the first time in ~10 years, and not only once buy twice! - And now this: they'll stop trying to shove AMP down our throats..? Let me guess: - someone is threatening to sue Google - and Googlers are tired of getting rightfully roasted for something stupid Goolge does, every single time they show up here

bouke 6y ago
DDG has reduced my need for Google Search for about 99% now. I even dread having to adding “!g” to my search as I have a growing dislike for Google’s grey UX patterns.
- eitland 6y ago
  > I even dread having to adding “!g” to my search as I have a growing dislike for Google’s grey UX patterns. Same here, and often the difference has been down to randomness, but lately - as I mentioned - I have had not just one but two times that Google actually behaved like Google from < 2009.
hinkley 6y ago
Irony is that if I want to shop online I have to use Google because DDG pretty much only shows Amazon. If I wanted Amazon I'd just be on amazon.com not ddg.com, fellas.
pdimitar 6y ago
I sure hope you are right. It would be about time, too.
- eitland 6y ago
  Next we know Reader is back ;-)

ComputerGuru 6y ago

I think it’s more about the content they can get. This’ll only happen when there are no AMP links so it’s still a tragedy of the commons, the only winner is Google.

ocdtrekkie 6y ago

Google is under investigation by 48 state governors and the Department of Justice, not to mention all of the various scrutiny in other countries and governing bodies such as the European Union. Special-casing the top search results for sites that implement a Google-proprietary replacement web format that lets them host the content on their own servers is a really bad look with all of that looming. I doubt Google will give up on AMP, it provides them way more control over the Internet than they've ever had before, but search result ads, knowledge graph/carousel content, and the top results of search are under incredible scrutiny right now.