If you use DuckDuckGo you don't have to deal with AMP at all. Giving it a go on mobile is a good way to see how well it works for you too as searches tend to be less mission-critical compared to desktop-based searches.
Yeah, I use DDG and only get crappy amp links on reddit and other forums. Either don't click or manually remove the amp. Google can [insert insult here].
Unfortunately, it is my experience that DuckDuckGo excels on the desktop (lots of facts and technical questions), and falls short on many mobile use cases ("best cafes in Some City," assistance with shopping or goods, maps, etc).
I use it on my phone anyway, but I wind up using `!g` all the time.
(yes, I made this same complaint on the DDG topic just a couple days ago)
Yeah, Google is far better at location-aware searches. To be honest most of those are usually done in Google Maps (sigh.. please somebody make a decent Google Maps alternative!) anyway, so it's not really an issue.
It's not just location-awareness. They also excel at weird fuzzy searches.
random example: My girlfriend lost her laptop in airport security, and I wanted to find a picture of the specific scratch-and-sniff sticker she put on it for the claim form. Duck Duck Go search for "glossier blackberry sticker" didn't find it; Google Images did, first try.
* this turned out to be a good move, I got a positive response from TSA within minutes
One issue is that "a decent Google Maps alternative" would cost literally billions at this point.
This kind of infrastructure is really the government's job, but they have struggled to keep pace...
You can still try Qwant (pretty good in my experience), Bing or Startpage (which uses Google in the back - but I never had any trouble with AMP when using it). It's not like there is no choice. And of course, there should be no reason to support Chrome either, Firefox is a great alternative.
EDIT: interesting, never thought such a comment would get a downvote... Google brigade?
I've found DuckDuckGo to work very well as my default search on mobile (so well, in fact, that I can't remember the last time I had to go to google for a search).
I still haven't brought myself to use it on my laptop, but I do use Bing on Vivaldi (I use Opera, Vivaldi, FF Dev Edition, Opera Dev Edition, and Chrome Canary - the first two for everyday browsing, and the rest for dev-ing. I use google in Opera, and Bing in Vivaldi).
Using search engines other than Google is a nice change of pace, even if not solely to avoid AMP pages.
This is what I did. When the Google News redesign happened, it made Google News substantially less useful to me. Enough so that came up with a replacement.
It's not for everyone, as it requires running your own webserver, but I use Tiny Tiny RSS to aggregate the feeds of the various sources I'm interested in, then can read the aggregated feeds (I have multiple, a different feed for each general subject) through the web interface and/or by using an RSS reader. I use an RSS reader (gReader) on my mobile devices to do this.
