<story><title>Google Stories</title><url>http://stories.google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sktrdie</author><text>It’s pretty cool. If you make a url return data that is visually aligned with “a story protocol” google will put it at top of relevant search results.&lt;p&gt;Think of it as a mini-html site that follows a specific set of visual JS and CSS protocols so that consumers have guarantee of its behavior (will not have crazy ads, gifs or third party content) and behaves consistently.&lt;p&gt;Kind of interesting avenue for publishing content on the web that isn’t tied to any specific platform.&lt;p&gt;I’d even go further and say the web needs more of these kind of things. All websites behave differently. Maybe we need a visual protocol also for general web apps (just like this web stories) so that we have consistent behavior. I dare to call this protocol Web Apps.</text></item><item><author>stingraycharles</author><text>Am I the only one who, after reading the landing page, still has no idea what this is? I’ve been watching “immersive” websites for quite some time, mostly marketing-ish websites but also sometimes some special purpose pages from National Geografic or NYT.&lt;p&gt;What exactly is this? A JavaScript&amp;#x2F;CSS framework? Something like AMP? Or is it a social network like Snapchat?&lt;p&gt;I’m genuinely confused what I’m looking at and feel old right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljm</author><text>So, another AMP-style thing where Google uses their platform and network effect to further encroach on the open web and turn it into the Google web?&lt;p&gt;The quote you see at first is: &amp;quot;Stories meet their widest audience ever.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Given that the widest audience is anyone who wants to search for something, this seems like a massive anti-trust bait.&lt;p&gt;Also, hard-pass on the continual dumbing down of content to contribute to the phenomenal attention deficit modern social media has introduced.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Stories</title><url>http://stories.google</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sktrdie</author><text>It’s pretty cool. If you make a url return data that is visually aligned with “a story protocol” google will put it at top of relevant search results.&lt;p&gt;Think of it as a mini-html site that follows a specific set of visual JS and CSS protocols so that consumers have guarantee of its behavior (will not have crazy ads, gifs or third party content) and behaves consistently.&lt;p&gt;Kind of interesting avenue for publishing content on the web that isn’t tied to any specific platform.&lt;p&gt;I’d even go further and say the web needs more of these kind of things. All websites behave differently. Maybe we need a visual protocol also for general web apps (just like this web stories) so that we have consistent behavior. I dare to call this protocol Web Apps.</text></item><item><author>stingraycharles</author><text>Am I the only one who, after reading the landing page, still has no idea what this is? I’ve been watching “immersive” websites for quite some time, mostly marketing-ish websites but also sometimes some special purpose pages from National Geografic or NYT.&lt;p&gt;What exactly is this? A JavaScript&amp;#x2F;CSS framework? Something like AMP? Or is it a social network like Snapchat?&lt;p&gt;I’m genuinely confused what I’m looking at and feel old right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>&amp;gt; Kind of interesting avenue for publishing content on the web that isn’t tied to any specific platform.&lt;p&gt;Except that the protocol will be designed not for the benefit of the web in general but rather for Google to maximize its ad revenue.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m all for sites doing new and interesting things, but just like AMP I&amp;#x27;m wary when these innovations are being driven by a single company that has monopolistic power over website discoverability and profitability.</text></comment>