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tristan957 on Dec 21, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ignore AMP

Google was pushing sites that used AMP higher in search results.

They are currently facing lawsuits in court in both the US and EU I believe for anti-competitive practices, AMP being one of them.

* Google no longer treats AMP pages as special as of a few weeks ago.

mkl on Dec 21, 2020 | [–]

It looks like Google still treats AMP pages as special, and will for a few more months, as announced a few weeks ago: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2020/11/timing-for... https://searchengineland.com/amp-wont-be-required-for-google... https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/11/19/as-antitru...

stetrain on Dec 21, 2020 | [–]

Yes, the favoritism in search results for sites using your own tech could definitely be an antitrust issue.

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