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[–]ThePlague 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Sooo, it sounds like Amp is Stadia for web pages. Like stadia, I'm not sure how remote rendering can be faster than local hardware, particularly for something like even a complicated web page. There's also the latency issue.

[–]Dragonerne 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Good questions.

[–]ThePlague 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Then google starts promoting AMP websites in their rankings.

I have to wonder if they'd get slapped with anti-competitive monopoly practices if they did this. They have north of 90% of search engine market. That's a higher percentage than Microsoft had of the desktop market in the late 90s/early 2000s, and they got hit from DOJ for monopolistic practices particularly in the browser space.

[–]Dragonerne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They already censor, etc. their search results. If it would be illegal for them to directly promote AMP, they could just do like they do with everything else do it indirectly.

Kind of like this tool:
http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php

If it's illegal to discriminate against gender, then you can use metrics that fairly accurately predict gender and then use those metrics as your basis for discrimination.

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    [–]Dragonerne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    The prediction is weak ;)

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      [–]ThePlague 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      The downside is that you never see the original site and their ad revenue is stolen.

      Hmmm, that sounds similar to "deep linking", or using frames to display the content of a web site while cutting off the ads and displaying your own. There was a court case about 15 years ago that addressed that, and made it actionable, possibly even illegal.

      [–]bug-in-recovery 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      Google "optimizes them for mobile".

      [–]ThePlague 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Sure, but that's more an interface thing for a small screen than reducing computing horsepower necessary.