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Why is google unable to work with CNAME again, I’m sure amp.washingtonpost.com would suffice? This seems like a Rube Goldberg machine for something with tons of existing solutions...

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Google / chrome can’t prefetch content on amp.washingtonpost.com or it would leak that the publisher’s content was shown in a search result.

Google does not control that.

You could easily point that URL at a Google server.

Sure, and point it elsewhere too.

Okay, what’s your point?

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