long-read on Google's aggressive, monopolistic push to get publishers to adopt AMP, leading to lawsuits and distrust.

Speed Trap
Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.

By David Pierce
Illustrations by Kristen Radtke

theverge.com/23711172/google-a

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Waaaait wait. Publishers didn't trust Google EVER. Sued Google for a decade over the whole scanning every damn thing in sight (Books).
So yeah, AMP was DOA.

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