At the beginning of February, an article was posted describing Google adding engineers to work on the WordPress core and ecosystem.
Google is looking to push for faster speeds for mobile across the web. Sounds good right? Well, to do this, it seems they are really pushing Accelerated Mobile Pages Project (AMP). While it has been shown an effective boost for mobile browsing, it also means that your content will be served on Googles network instead of your own.
There is a divide in what people are saying about this. While large companies and corporate people in charge are yelling it’s faster, they are only looking at that aspect of it, and not accounting for anything else. There are more and more people stating this is a bad thing.
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