StrypeyMay 8, 2024

"AMP became a key component in an antitrust lawsuit filed just five years after its launch in 2020 by 17 state attorneys general, accusing Google of maintaining an illegal monopoly on the advertising industry. The states argue that Google designed AMP in part to thwart publishers from using alternative ad tools — tools that would have generated more money for publishers and less for Google."

#DavidPierce, 2023

https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit

#Google #AMP #AntiTrust

Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over

Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. But even after wide adoption, its poor implementation led to publishers abandoning AMP and, in the end, ruined the trust they had in the internet giant.

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Show threadStrypeyMay 8, 2024

Jeff Jarvis, a CUNY professor and media critic, had been agitating at Newsgeist events for years for Google to build what he called “the embeddable newspaper,” a way for news articles to be displayed around the internet in much the same way a YouTube video can be embedded practically anywhere.

#DavidPierce, 2023

https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit

Could the fediverse be the place to realise your vision of "the embeddable newspaper" @jeffjarvis?

Google AMP: how Google tried to fix the web by taking it over

Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. But even after wide adoption, its poor implementation led to publishers abandoning AMP and, in the end, ruined the trust they had in the internet giant.

The Verge
Show threadStrypeyMay 9, 2024

"It turned out there were two types of Reader users: the completionists, who go through every unread item they have, and the folks who just scroll around until they find something. Both sides think the other is bonkers."

#DavidPierce, 2023

https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

I suspect this is also true of the fediverse. I'm the second type. There's no way I'd read everything that comes down the firehose of all the accounts I follow.

Who killed Google Reader?

Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.

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Show threadStrypey

"For a while, the internet got away from what Google Reader was trying to build: everything moved into walled gardens and algorithmic feeds, governed by Facebook and Twitter and TikTok and others. But now, as that era ends and a new moment on the web is starting to take hold through Mastodon, Bluesky, and others, the things Reader wanted to be are beginning to come back."

#DavidPierce, 2023

https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

#SocialMedia #ReDecentralization

Who killed Google Reader?

Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.

The Verge
May 12, 2024 at 11:34pmWeb