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I sure hope it is the end of AMP (even though it was launched by a close friend of mine at Google). Quite honestly, the concept never really made any sense to
by osrec 6y ago
I sure hope it is the end of AMP (even though it was launched by a close friend of mine at Google).
Quite honestly, the concept never really made any sense to me, and often the load speeds were just as poor as the original website itself.
One thing that really bugged me was how disorientating it was for the user; on some AMP pages, you literally could not tell if you were on a legitimate website or some spoofed version. The AMP bar at the top was about as trashy a UI design as I've seen since 1997. And, God help you if you wanted to share the link - it was hard to know if the AMP link would be "persistent" or "sticky" enough to share, or whether you should go to the actual underlying web page (which the AMP bar did a great job of hiding) and share that.
But what is most annoying of all is that smart people at Google were kidding themselves that their botched up implementation of AMP was a great thing to have launched upon the world. It really was not. I bet it didn't really do much for their bottom line either.
- JakeTheAndroid 6y agoThe amount of effort it can take to the the actual link to the article is just insane. Trying to share something through your phone that has been AMP'd is basically signaling it's not worth the effort to send the article at all. Add that to how untrustworthy the link looks, it's just terrible execution on an idea that might have merit.
- what_ever 6y agoThat's not been my experience on Android. I just opened an AMP link from Google search which opened in Chrome based WebView. Clicking on share - how I usually share things - presented me with the actual link of the article. From there I could copy or open any of the apps to actually share the link. AFAIK, this has been long fixed. Disc: Googler.
- ec109685 6y agoOn iOS it is the same way. Apple also figures out the canonical link and shares that.
- osrec 6y agoIs your original Google search done in Chrome or via the Google "app"? I guess that's why your result opens in a WebView? I usually just go to google.com in Chrome to search for things, and the amp link in the address bar is really rather confusing.
- JakeTheAndroid 6y agoI usually search for things using the Google widget on my home screen. And from there I will "Open the link in Chrome". This means that I end up opening an massive AMP link not the direct link in Chrome. So I have to basically copy the title of the article from the AMP'd version, and paste that into Google through a new Chrome tab and usually that works. But why is using the Google AMP service through the Google widget so terrible? I would expect a more fluid experience, but you end up with this really terrible experience trying to leverage the Google ecosystem. Theres nothing from stopping me from opening FireFox and searching the article title in Bing or DDG at that point.