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by ec109685 3454 days ago
AMP preloads the content before you click, which your own web site can't compete with.
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from Google results, yes. That's only one specific (but for many admittedly important) situation, and sounds more like "AMP because that's the hoop Google has you jump through to get preloading", not "AMP because it makes the site faster".