A Search Engine Watch Blog post from Danny Sullivan, Google Toolbar's AutoLink & The Need For Opt-Out defined many of the issues around the toolbar feature. Google's Autolink raised a lot of eyebrows, and brought some negative reactions.
I would agree that Google should to the opt-out route with AutoLink, as I
wrote before. AutoLink. AutoLink and are suddenly scanning your pages to find how Google got real Fair turnabout, some who hate AutoLink would say.
Upset about Google AutoLink, the new Google Toolbar feature that adds links to web pages that it feels
are appropriate? Given this, it would be hard for Google to object to the tool especially after Google's
statement in my Google Toolbar's...
Toolbar's AutoLink & The Need For Opt-Out). I've got an update coming on developments with Google AutoLink since I last wrote about it (see Google There's a petition, meta tags against it and so on. But in the meantime,
via Steve Rubel, news that...
AutoLink can survive
opt-out black spots, as well. Some others want AutoLink to be opt-in -- that Google shouldn't be able
to do anything like this unless publishers explicitly say they should. It would be much better for Google to provide an opt...
See today's Google Toolbar's AutoLink & The Need For Opt-Out article on the Search Engine Watch Blog for the complete story. The AutoLink feature in the latest version of the popular Google Toolbar has raised controversy since it was released last...