A brief guide to how Google's new Accelerated Mobile Pages (aka AMP) are displayed and navigated. Includes details on the fundamental change to how Google AMP pages differ to ‘normal’ search results.
2. 1. Top Stories
AMP pages are displayed as Top stories
at the top of the search results*
2. The Amp card carousel
Each story is displayed within a card - a
small white panel enclosing the individual
story components.
* When there are not enough stories to warrant a carousel, AMP articles are
displayed within the normal search results.
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How AMP pages are displayed
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Amp Card components
Each AMP card consists of the following:
1. Publisher logo
2. Lead image
3. Story title
4. The new AMP icon
5. Time published
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Componenets of an AMP card
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4. Next
Users can swipe
through the articles in
the carousel results or
click into an AMP page..
Carousel
When a search topic
results in a few results,
Amp stories are dis-
played within cards
and a horizontally
scrolling carousel.
The AMP card carousel
5. A fundamental change to how
Google AMP pages differ
to ‘normal’ search results.
Reading AMP stories
6. Clicking a ‘normal’
Google result
Web page is hosted on publishers’
own domain and served from
publishers’ hosting.
Clicking a search result
sends a visitor to the
publishers’ own web page
Page title 1
http://www.website.domain.not/result...
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consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque
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Page title 3
http://www.website.domain.not/result...
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consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque
consectetur lectus eget...
Page title 2
http://www.website.domain.not/result...
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consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque
consectetur lectus eget...
7. Clicking a
Google AMP search result
The AMP page is
served from on a
Google CDN.
Clicking a search result
sends visitors to
a Google page
Page title 1
http://www.website.domain.not/result...
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consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque
consectetur lectus eget...
Page title 3
http://www.website.domain.not/result...
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque
consectetur lectus eget...
Page title 2
http://www.website.domain.not/result...
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque
consectetur lectus eget...
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1. Address Bar
Reads as Google URL
2. Navigation
Each story from the
results is immediately
accessible by swiping
left/right.
8. Instantly available
While reading an AMP page, other search results are pre-loaded
and appear instananteous when called.
Accessing other AMP pages
Swipe
Navigate through
articles without going
back to the search
results.
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Peter Knight
Freelance Web & Graphic Designer