Ever since Google’s instant article format, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) launched in 2016, the company has stridently pushed back on the idea that it was a Google-specific project. Instead, executives said that it was a part of the open web, with open-source contributions both from Google employees and non-Googlers, and that it is utilized not just by Google search, but also Bing, eBay, and others.

That message didn’t really resonate with the web community, which has largely seen it as (at best) a Google project and (at worst) an attempt to co-opt the entire web with a Google-controlled format.

Now, Google is announcing that it intends to give up some control of how the code behind AMP is managed. It plans to move the AMP Project to a…

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