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It's a protocol pushed by one company that wants to bend the web to fit it's purposes. To do that, Google ranks AMP pages more highly. And that's anti competiti
by lopis 6y ago
It's a protocol pushed by one company that wants to bend the web to fit it's purposes. To do that, Google ranks AMP pages more highly. And that's anti competitive and breaks search.
One reason Google wants the whole web to be "standard" is so they can scrape all information more easily, show users rich content by stealing your website's traffic, and create an internet information silo.
- rjmunro 6y agoWhy is AMP worse than Facebook's "instant articles", or whatever it is that the Apple news app does?
- OJFord 6y agoPrevalence. Not GP and I don't use Facebook, but for what it's worth I hate recieving Apple News links too. No it's no worse than receiving bit.ly links to articles, but that doesn't happen to me.
- pas 6y agoI hate this argument, but here it goes: Google is a private company. Do they have a duty to the open web? A bit more constructively: Who are the stakeholders here in the "open web"? > show users rich content by stealing your website's traffic Agreed. AMP allows ads, so when the users open the site the original site can receive ad revenue. But the snippets Google shows on the search results page likely deprive the original sites from traffic. However ... it's not like Wikipedia wasn't already "stealing facts".