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Comment by godelmachine | Hacker News Reader

Just in case someone is excitedly expecting that AMP is going away (like I did :p), sorry beforehand to burst your bubble -

>>Part of the Google update is that all pages with high Page Experience scores are eligible to be in the featured top news carousel. This effectively means that publishers will no longer be forced to use AMP and can instead provide fast, rich experiences on their own domains

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It may end up being the same thing. Publishers reluctantly used AMP because of the carousel placement. Depending on the effort to revert, removing the incentive may effectively kill AMP.

Publishers absolutely want to take people to their main site, not the AMP facsimile. If Google actually do what they say here, this will kill AMP.

You are very optimistic about publishers actually making the websites fast. (like just how they did before AMP existed).

Disc: Googler but not associated with AMP whatsoever.

Publishers have shown that they can devote developer effort when there is a clear ROI. Google just need to make the criteria for inclusion in the carousel understandable and measurable.

This is disturbing. I think it is up to people like the ones who read hacker news to at least raise awareness of the issue with ordinary people. A lot of people are uncomfortable with the monopoly power of Google but aren't sure exactly what is wrong with it.

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