Google promises publishers an alternative to AMP
Google's AMP project is not uncontroversial. Users often love it because it makes mobile sites load almost instantly. Publishers often hate it because they feel like they are giving Google too much control in return for better placement on its search pages. Now Google proposes to bring some of the lessons it learned from AMP to the web as a whole. Ideally, this means that users will profit from Google's efforts and see faster non-AMP sites across the web (and not just in their search engines).
Publishers, however, will once again have to adopt a whole new set of standards for their sites, but with this, Google is also giving them a new path to be included in the increasingly important Top Stories carousel on its mobile search results pages.
"Based on what we learned from AMP, we now feel ready to take the next step and work to support more instant-loading content not based on AMP technology in areas of Google Search designed for this, like the Top Stories carousel," AMP tech lead Malte Ubl writes today. "This content will need to follow a set of future web standards and meet a set of objective performance and user experience criteria to be eligible."
Also at Search Engine Land and The Verge.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @02:32AM (4 children)
https://nextcloud.com/ [nextcloud.com]
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Tuesday March 13 2018, @06:10AM (2 children)
Have actually looked at that, as well as Mailpile
(Score: 2) by CoolHand on Tuesday March 13 2018, @12:02PM (1 child)
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job-Douglas Adams
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @01:55PM
You can get a keepass running on that nextcloud to address the passwords
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 13 2018, @10:58AM
I recently deployed nextcloud for a group of friends and they have found it very useful. Not only that, while I didn't intend to use it myself, I have found myself doing so.
Not heavy usage by any means, but definitely handy (and of course, being able to deploy your own server is great!).