ROLAND_F - 10:20 am on Jan 23, 2002 (gmt 0)

Personnaly I hope that one day there will not exist any website with popups.

Recently I've found a website that was cheating in a TopList by loading the TopList url in a frame. This same website tried to force the installation of Gator and Comet Cursor, displayed some ads for a very short time (to for ad impression) and offered content that was mainly stolen from other website. My desktop was full of pop-up and this was not a porn website. Actually I don't know if it show up in SERP because I've found it in TopList but this is the kind of website I wish I never see in SERP.

For SmartTags, I don't like them too, I still have to see a good use of this "technology". If the only purpose of SmartTags is to send traffic to the company which has the most money, I hope we will see a tool that remove them. I don't want to look at page with only blue underlined text :).
You can do so much things on a browser when you know a little bit of C++. I hope we will see more improvement for the user that need good information and not only for people with money.

Maybe we can imagine a kind of good smart tags or a smart tags architecture where the user is informed about them and can choose in which backend the query go. Something like do you want your smarttags
from Google and get result based on page relevance or do you want your smarttags from a search engine where the one who give the more money win top position ? I think that in the current state all these
system are evil, they don't inform user and steal traffic. There must be also a way for webmaster to protect their page from being modified by foreign sources. I think that webmasters will be upset to see their copyrighted content modified with a lot of links to competitors.
It's a little bit like ThirdVoice IMHO.

In fact, it may be good to provide a place where it is clear that results are paid and not based on relevance. To Google toolbar could show tree drop down menu with 1) links to pages related to the current page based on a query in Google, 2) links to pages related to the current page based on popularity or user ranking, 3) paid links

I like very much the idea from Brett about Google implementing a validation system.

In fact we can also think about automatic SE optimization :).
The bot could crawl the web, get the email of the webmaster and send
back HTML pages that validate and with relevant keywords put between bold tag, in title, in meta-keywords and auto submit to Yahoo directory and dmoz.org in the right category. ;)

F.