When Google & Searching become too helpful
Google has a new autolink feature that some people think could be a privacy and intellectual property problem. What autolink does is automatically identify linkable content and add links to its own services. Addresses would be linked to Google maps, names of celebrities to Google images, etcetera.
Personally, I think that if done well, this is a great idea. Perhaps a UI with transparent overlay and injected onMouseOver javascript and minor text styling to make their injected content a) obviously foreign to the page, and b) inobtrusive to the content. The last thing they’ll need to consider is also reading c) an HTML meta-directive that could disable the feature on a website. This way they will still be able to provide their information service, while avoiding angering many sensitive customers.
This entry was posted on Saturday, February 19th, 2005 at 1:09 am and is tagged with html meta, transparent overlay, google, information service, maps, ui, celebrities, intellectual property, images. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.
