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Comment by smilliken | Hacker News Reader

You won't see AMP if you switch search engines.

Using DuckDuckGo with a backup of !g (send search to google), I don't think I've ever hit an AMP page in search results in my life. Maybe because I only use !g for really technical searches.

!s takes you to Startpage, which, if you're trying to avoid Google, gets you where you want to go by proxy.

Just this morning I got pissed off by an AMP page and was considering a search engine switch. Maybe this is my sign.

AMP was what made me abandon Google Search in January 2018 for DuckDuckGo.

Surprising how little I've noticed the change, after using Google Search for over 15 years. I try queries on google.com maybe once or twice a week if I don't find what I'm looking for on DDG. If it's anything media or product related, I feel like I'm on an old, crowded MySpace page. DDG feels more like the old Google.

You convinced me. Switching now. Fuck this noise.

You can even tweak your DuckDuckGo settings (dark theme, etc) and save them in DuckDuckGo using a passphrase of your choice, which you can restore and keep them in sync across those devices.

Bing implements AMP, and there's nothing technically stopping other search engines from adding support.

Also, links in the Twitter app default to AMP as well.

Good for most people they use neither of those things then.

I wouldn't mind AMP as a feature as long as Google let me specify that I don't want it.

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