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Ask HN: Where did AMP pages go?

20 points by kevindeasis ↗ HN
Back a few months ago, I saw them everywhere in my google searches, nowadays they don't show up in any of my google searches. Even if I use different devices, incognito, vpn, etc.

Even the popular websites that supported them heavily dont show up in my google searches, anyone have insights about this?

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or29544
Ah, they are still there. They don't need to start with amp now. Didn't you read the latest articles? They are just disguised.
Maha-pudma
I don't know but I'm glad they are gone if that's the case. I only use Google very rarely these days and if an amp page presents itself to me umatrix completely blocks it and I take the actual URL from the amp URL and visit the actual site.

I hate what Google is trying to do to the web!

or29544
They are not gone but yep, just use firefox like I do (and duckduckgo) and you are home free. AMP works only in chrome and are searched only with google search.
onyva
Didn’t know that. Another point for Firefox for sure.
franze
Still there I.e.: https://www.google.com/search?q=layoffs&rlz=1CDGOYI_enAT855A...

on mobile crome, ios device Amp not marked in the news section (1 of 3)

3 times in the organic results, marked with a flash icon.

The day amp goes away is a day I celebrate. Huge ongoing project overhead for a subpart user experience (and crappy brittle technology) all in the name of SEO.

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erwinh
still get them quite often :(
mdrachuk
They should never come back.
wayneftw
AMP pages are still there if you are still using Google on mobile.

I switched to duckduckgo on my phone for now.

I'm thinking about building a search page where the query goes to my home desktop computer where I run headless Chrome to scrape results from all the search engines and then forward them back to my phone. Unfortunately, Apple will not fucking let me use a custom search engine in Safari on the iPhone, probably because they're in cahoots with Google and China to bring about a new world order where nobody has any freedom whatsoever. xD

majewsky
Do alternative iOS browsers allow exchanging the search engine? As far as I'm aware Apple only locks them into using WebKit.
wayneftw
WebKit is a browser engine, not a search engine.
jjpe
You could just serve a webpage that queries your desktop, and visit that with the browser on your phone. Slightly more work, but definitely viable. You can even make a shortcut on the home screen of your phone that automatically navigates to your custom search page.