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Evil? No. Insidious? Yes.

This rant against the Google AutoLink Function (along with this review of the rant) make some very good and very troubling points about Google's new Autolink function.
Allowing customers to add links wherever they want radically changes the web, turning any page into a Wiki, essentially. The future uses of this technology need to be addressed, and fast. What if Google started selling Autolink info to Amazon or another online retailer, where an Autolink takes you to a shopping cart? Not the sort of thing that, say, Barnes and Noble would like.
Just because you *can* do this, Google, doesn't mean you should.

This entry was posted by Kevin Creighton, on 3.02.2005.

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