Google decides to shake the web again with Accelerated Mobile Pages

As of today, the AMP pages from google's SERP will show the original URL in the address bar, which, according to Google, should solve some problems of confusion. It's a shame that, according to many, the new system only makes things worse. In other words, by tapping an AMP link from the Google search, you will no longer be taken to the optimized page on the site's server, but you will get a cached version stored on Google's servers, while the address will be formed by www.google.com/amp/URL_original.

AMP pages are beautiful, but links to AMP pages? Not so much …

Until today! Signed exchanges are here: now you can get instant loading for AMP on your own domain! ? #AMPConf pic.twitter.com/OSEcKDc3A5

— AMP Project (@AMPhtml) April 17, 2019

Google began testing all possible solutions last year and will use a feature developed for Chrome called “Web Packaging”, which allows sites to view content on behalf of others and uses TLS encryption to ensure that content is not changed. Web Packaging has been enabled by default in Chrome 73, while Mozilla has not yet decided whether to add support to its Firefox browser.

Google offers Web Packaging support to anyone, website developers and browser providers, so that when users touch an AMP link from a Google search, they will always be taken to the correct page, even if they don't know that they are viewing a page saved on one of Google's many servers.

The problem is that with this system it will be extremely difficult to visit the original version of a page, which is why many users consider the new feature hostile, as it fundamentally changes the functioning of the web. One of the basic principles of the Internet is precisely the URL, that is, the address that in just a moment helps you to understand where you are. However, if you use Chrome, you can say goodbye to that in the future.