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Ezine InformationGoogle Gone Bad?
by:
Trina L.C. Schiller
The Mysterious AutoLink
By Trina L.C. Writer
Recently there has been several talk just about Google's newest addtion to their toolbar - AutoLink. So I distinct to have a look at their information on it. Google actually doesn't offer more in the way of information just about it, so I went to see elsewhere.
As a result, I am pretty sure I cognize why Google doesn't offer more than a paragraph's worth of information on AutoLink. Remember SmartTags?
Microsoft SmartTags adscititious links to your web documents without your psychological feature
or consent. Once
released, it turned the Net
side down. Webmasters were scrambling to numbers out what could be done to turn it off; block it from their sites.
Now Google has move out with their really own traffic crook with AutoLink. AutoLink essentially makes the same thing SmartTags does, except that it is not built into your operative
system. (SmartTags was enclosed
in the Windows XP operative
system.) It is part of the Googlebar. The only real significance of this difference is that users can choose whether or not to install it.
In my opinion, what this amounts to is copyright infringement. Who gave Microsoft, or Google the right to add links, to else web sites, to my pages? I for sure did not. To my knowledge, proprietary
material is not to be altered by anyone else than the entity holding the copyright, and that includes web pages, under the laws governing intellectual property.
I wrote to Google to tell them my thoughts on the matter, and this was their reply:
Thank you for your feedback regarding the AutoLink feature of the Google Toolbar 3.0 beta. AutoLink is a user-initiated feature of the Google Toolbar. AutoLink links are generated only once
a Toolbar user clicks on the AutoLink button on his or her Toolbar. Links aren't mechanically
generated on a page, and a Toolbar user must click on the generated links in order to go to a joined
page. AutoLink makes not modify links that already exist on a page. Finally, Toolbar users choose whether they want to modify
or disable this feature and once
to use it.
Because Toolbar users choose whether they want to modify
or disable features and once
to use them, we do not provide a way for webmasters to disable features such as AutoLink and the Popup Blocker on their visitors' Toolbars.
We appreciate your taking the time to share your feedback just about the AutoLink feature, and we'll support it in mind as we activity to improve our service.
Regards,
The Google Team
What bothers me just about this is that it is 'user initiated.' That means that as a webmaster, I have no control over what that 'user' makes spell at my site. I have no select as to whether or not the 'user' is going to run off to one of Google's advertisers, rather than remaining on my page. They don't alter existing links, but they do add links that I didn't put there. Again, can you say copyright infringement?
Google for sure doesn't see it that way. In fact, once
I brought it up in my letter to them, they altogether unnoticed
it in their response.
Webmasters activity hard to get traffic to their pages, so who gave Google the right to steal that hard work? Personally, I expected better of Google.
On a side note, you may want to review Google's Privacy Policy, if you're concerned just about spyware. See below:
"Your Privacy
Google respects and protects our users' privacy. Periodically, the Google Toolbar’s auto-update feature wish contact our servers to see if you’re running the most current version. In addition, Google may collect information just about web pages that you view once
you use advanced features such as PageRank, SpellCheck, AutoLink, and WordTranslator. However, these advanced features can be easily disabled or re-enabled at any time by selecting "Privacy Information" under "Help" in the Toolbar's "Google" menu. To discover more, please see the Toolbar privacy policy."
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Just just about the author:
Trina L.C. Writer
is a professional network marketer, the publisher of the Net
marketing ezine, "Trii-Zine" and owner of TLC Promotions, as well as a commencement publisher at Quikonnex.com, and President of AdsOnQ.com, the Internet's 1st syndicated advertising agency.
She has likewise authored the following ebooks:
"Your Beginner's Manual To Syndication"
RSS, Blogs and Syndication... The Facts vs The guruese"
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