I thought a link tag sends a request to get the contents of the href attribute, and then the server sends back the file or a 304 header, if it&#x27;s cached. That seems to indicate that the server is getting a request from the browser. Also, isn&#x27;t Google caching AMP pages on their own domains? I&#x27;ve read that Google doesn&#x27;t send people to your site, but just to a copy on their own site.<p>When I try the demo for the NY Times, I see a banner there that takes me back to the search results. Did NY Times decide that they want to use that above-the-fold real estate to send people back to Google.com?<p>What specific code enables or disables this giant back button on an AMP webpage: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;GpBqgnx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;GpBqgnx</a><p>AMP is a somewhat-forced restriction on what people can publish on their sites. Providing guidelines on how to make mobile pages faster would be a more reasonable solution. One could argue that no one is &quot;forced&quot; to use AMP, but if AMP pages appear at the top of the SERPs then that is a form of coercion, since fewer people will scroll beneath the fold.