Comment by MSHDigit on 29/07/2019 at 23:49 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies (showing 1)

View submission: Why did I build AmputatorBot?

Thank you. Just discovered this when the bot responded to a comment I just made. I cited an article from the Guardian and went through the Guardian homepage to search the article within their website and it still redirected me to a google search, forcing me to use AMP (I'm not tech-savvy in this sense). This seems very deliberate.

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Comment by AmputatorBot at 01/08/2019 at 07:50 UTC*

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I tested it out[1] and you're right. It honestly blows my mind that they have implemented search this way. I don't think they did it to use AMP, as there are much easier ways to accomplish this result. They've probably done this because they have lazy programmers or because Google gets the best search results.

1: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Holy+fuck+this+is+stupid&as_sitesearch=www.theguardian.com

I am working on a feature or website that would allow users to input an amp link and the output would be the direct link. For now you could also summon the bot by mentioning u/amputatorbot. More info about that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmputatorBot/comments/ckgfdv/an_update_on_the_way_amputatorbot_handles

Ps i should have posted this from u/Killed_Mufasa whoopsie