Google AMP’s Malte Ubl wants to make the mobile web better

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🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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You may not have heard of Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) but you almost certainly have used it. The Google open-source project has been making waves since it launched in 2016 in an effort to make the mobile web faster to load and smoother to navigate. This week, Nilay sat down with Malte Ubl, creator and tech lead of AMP, to talk about the controversy of bifurcating the web, forming a technical steering committee to co-lead the project, and Ubl’s vision for the future of the mobile web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.4	This week's Vertrass interview is with Maltae Ubul,
0:34.2	who is the head of AMP at Google.
0:36.3	AMP is the accelerated mobile project at Google.
0:38.6	You might not have heard it before, but you've definitely seen it.
0:41.3	If you click a link on Twitter,
0:43.4	you almost always load an AMP story.
0:45.2	If you click a Virgelyk on Twitter,
0:46.8	you'll load an AMP version of our website.
0:48.8	It's a cut down version of the web that's being led by Google.
0:52.1	It's hugely controversial because it's kind of forked the web.
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