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Google's AutoLinking: Exercises in tagging dominance

<![CDATA[John Robb’s Weblog: It gets worse. The basis of this modification is search-based services. If Microsoft is able to put a basket of search-based services into every Web page most people view with a browser (“search in situ” vs. the site based model), Google could be in real trouble. It could quickly turn Google into […]

<![CDATA[John Robb’s Weblog:

It gets worse. The basis of this modification is search-based services. If Microsoft is able to put a basket of search-based services into every Web page most people view with a browser (“search in situ” vs. the site based model), Google could be in real trouble. It could quickly turn Google into Netscape, and I am sure Bill Gates knows this.

Scripting News: 2/22/2005:

“The AutoLink feature adds links to the page you’re viewing if it recognizes certain types of information on the page.” So if there was any doubt that the purpose of AutoLink was to add links to pages created by others, it’s right there in black and white on google.com.

John and Dave raise two aspects of the inherent problem with Google’s page annotation technology, AutoLink. This is folksonomy in action, where users append their own categorization of content, create links and cross-index information. But when it is enabled by a Google, it raises the practice to an economic act that will reshape information permanently and not necessarily with regard to the intent of the folks doing their own taxonomies.]]>