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It got annoying enough for me to switch my search to bing.com everywhere, including Google's own browser. My two main complaints: 1. Once I am on AMP page, most of the time I want to click around the site and I cannot do that - feels like a cage. 2. URL obfuscates the site name and article title (not completely, but definitely adds visual noise)

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2a) I want to get to the site, not another Google property.

Penalize my search listing all you like, but none of my stuff will be hosted elsewhere.

I thought publishers learned their lessons here - use someone else's printing press, and ultimately, they control what's printed.

This is the part that I don't understand. Why are publishers so eager to give away control of their meal-ticket?

They can always turn AMP off if Google does something evil.

And lose their ranking? It won't be as simple as "just turn it off"

The lack of navigation within the AMP site is the reason I avoid clicking an AMP link if at all possible

Agree. I did exactly this a couple of days ago when trying to get the URL of a BBC news article. I had never used bing before that.

I don't think I've ever seen an AMP page on a google search result, so either I'm searching for very different things than you are, or there's some browser configuration that doesn't show tons of AMP sites on Google.

I usually browse with JS off (though I think not on Google) and the standard suite of privacy apps - uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc, and I usually use the version of Google with Instant disabled. Maybe that helps.

Why don't you give DuckDuckGo a shot?

I was thinking earlier, why don't mozilla or the FSF take a shot at building their own search engine? Imagine how many projects the monetization could fund?

Because, building a search engine is not the solution to everything?

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