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 and are suddenly scanning your pages to find how Google got real AutoLink. 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? Ok, Ok, I lied [I fired my butler]: From Jonas Luster's blog, this post against Google AutoLink follows the metaphor of...
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 Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg has come out against the system: Google Toolbar Inserts Links...
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-out in a way that makes publishers happy but also...
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...
