On: Kill Google AMP before it kills the web

[dreamcompiler]

AMP is Google's latest attempt to build a walled garden. It's more dangerous to the web than Facebook's WG because of Google's near-monopoly on search. AMP does indeed need to die in a very hot fire.

And in the long term, it's high time somebody built a less creepy, better functioning search engine.

[ocdtrekkie → dreamcompiler]

Bing works fine. The more people use them, the better they'll get. DuckDuckGo mostly feeds off other engines, but is also good.

I personally don't really recommend StartPage because you can't get away from Google's opinionated ranking on a site that provides Google results.

But in short, use other search engines and they'll get better. Stop giving Google your search behavior, it's what they use to keep themselves on top.

[tytso → ocdtrekkie]

You realize Bing supports AMP and has an AMP cache as well, right? And if you use DDG, you're effectively using Bing.

BTW, Cloudflare has an AMP cache as well....

[ocdtrekkie → tytso]

I am aware Bing also supports AMP, but reducing Google's dominance in search data is key on preventing them from determining web design going forward.

DDG uses multiple sources, including Bing and Yandex. They also have their own efforts like their knowledge graph-type data features, which are open source and can be contributed to.

[biocomputation → dreamcompiler]

Bing user here. I switched a few years ago when I finally got sick enough of Google's many creepy abuses of power.

It's just as good. As others have noted, Google's search is only good when you're signed in. Because they use all that data to personalize the results.