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> If we want to defeat AMP, we have to beat it at its own game. That requires us to come up with an alternative that's equal or faster than AMP.

The technical work has been done for years. The problem is that currently the only decision which matters is Google's and they're treating performance concerns as a way to use other people's content to bolster their own brand. The only two ways that seems possible to change are either convincing Google to reverse that policy or getting more people to use non-Google search engines, which seems unlikely given the huge quality lead they have over Bing, DDG, etc.



This is similar to what happened with HTTP/2. Varnish author has his own proposal, but everything asides from SPDY simply wasn't even looked at.


And the current SPDY solution actually turns out to be worse under many circumstances, causing QUIC.




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