But the AMP pages give them preferential treatment in Google search results. I doubt they'd want to give that up.

So you are saying Google is blackmailing websites into having a terrible user-experience?

I guess everbody sucks on this new, modern and JS-USB-enabled (thanks again Google!) web.

> So you are saying Google is blackmailing websites into having a terrible user-experience?

Pretty much, yes.

AMP compliance gets you a better Google search placement. So, every site is going to make sure they get their AMP placement and then funnel you to something non-Google.

Yes.

AMP is an absolute cancer and its adoption would probably be 0% if google didn’t forcefully shove it down everyone’s throat. (And they are very good at learning from their own history, because that totally worked with Google+.)

I wonder how important Google Search is to Reddit, though. They are big enough (like Facebook) that they may not need it much anymore, and may have used AMP based on the promise of a better experience (meanwhile deliberately degrading mobile experience).

I bet Reddit does pretty well on long tail queries. It's one of a few high pagerank sites that has a little content on just about every subject.

I think there have been some linked articles on hn on amp pages actually performing poorly for seo