Morony Alert!

How nice of Google to give use users a Google bar, one more search engine bar in my browser, one more pop-up blocker, one more news reader, how arse-ome!

What on Earth were you THINKING?

While the stuff mentioned above is quite superfluous but won't hurt anyone, here's the real treat… or threat?

Does Google violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act?

Oh great, how come? Their nice little gadget called AutoLink which will add stuff to YOUR websites, to any website. Sounds familiar? Yes, the crackpots at Microsoft had the same idea in 2001 with the MS Smart Tags, but the Internet fired back, what will happen to Google? Will users ban Google from indexing their servers? Will lawyers get rich and famous for the Google Crackdown that brought the biggest search engine down in a license lawsuit based upon an unlicensed content modification of gazillions of websites?

…the future?

Wild guesses, for sure, but it certainly will be the end of Google as we know it, it lost its virtue. People are already sharpening their knives to fight back or at least try to undo Google's modifications.

More on this at Zeldman's

But by all means TELL Google what they are doing wrong! Apparently they don't realize that these things along with automatic linking of ISBN numbers to the appropriate items at amazon.com will expose companies like Tower Records and Barnes & Noble to huge losses. Or how would you like an automatic map to your house from your whois.net entry that shows up when someone checks on your domain name?

What was the name of that Movie again? Ah yes, 1984! Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against a company that tries to make the most out of their knowledge, but let me just insert a quote from Spiderman here to get my point across:

With great power comes great responsibility.