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Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

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I wonder if it's being A/B tested. I still see the URL, and can click on it from the little "i" icon at the top left. Android, Chrome, USA. Surely a terrible idea though. AMP already has a PR problem.

AMP is an obvious attempt to embrace/extend/extinguish the open web, so yes it has a PR problem.

Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

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Why can't they just give a simple setting which lets users disable AMP? This is the most annoying about being forced to use AMP.

Who's being forced to use AMP? The user? Remember, the user is the product .

The product is being forced to use AMP.

Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

A/B testing whether or not people have finally gotten tired of fighting for the web. Once they can go for a few months without anybody speaking up, they'll move on to further stages.

It's illegal to do that in the EU, so probably only affects non-EU terretories.

A/B testing is illegal in the EU?

Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

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Why can't they just give a simple setting which lets users disable AMP? This is the most annoying about being forced to use AMP.

How do you get AMP pages? Do they appear in Google search results when you look stuff up on a mobile phone?

Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

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Why can't they just give a simple setting which lets users disable AMP? This is the most annoying about being forced to use AMP.

How do you get AMP pages? Do they appear in Google search results when you look stuff up on a mobile phone?

Yes, being AMP also grants you priority ranking in certain parts of their UI

Re: Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results

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AMP results are annoying enough on mobile that I switched my default search engine to duckduckgo on my phone.

I did the same, and am slowly switching over other computers too as I remember. The quality of search result is high enough that I can't tell the difference.

Search engines are too important to leave in the hands of one company. Especially a company that, though it was founded as a search engine company, has that search engine as only a tiny part of its people-tracking machine.

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