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What if you had worked hard to design a Web page, carefully placing links just where you wanted them and carefully selecting the Web destinations to which those links led? And then, what if a company with great power on the Web started adding its own links to your page, drawing visitors away from your page to other sites of its own choosing?
[online.wsj.com...]
Unfortunately, you have to have a WSJ subscription to view this.
Mossberg says he's talked to Google people who say thay may alter the feature to not alter the pages themselves, but make the links available on the toolbar. However, Google insists their guiding principle is 'user convenience'.
[blog.ericgoldman.org...]
Any software that creates a page that is derived from another page will probably be determined to not be "fair use" if it uses the whole page.
Nice try Google. Making the user click a button won't protect Google [claiming to be an agent of the user as pointed out in the article] and neither will creating another page. Google should just make it an opt in system for publishers and pay something to publishers if you make money. How froogle is google?
