Seriously. (Score 1)

I've been following the search engine industry, and Internet marketing in general for over 4 years and a lot has changed, but there is always one dominant company that tries to test its boundaries (or get greedy) and this time it's Google. If you read about what they're trying to do with AutoLink, it seems to try to serve an actual purpose, where SmartTags was simply going to be helpful/lucrative, but honestly we all know Google doesn't develop platforms without a thought towards revenue. If anyone here has followed the Internet marketing industry at all lately you'll know that other companies outside of Microsoft (notably adware) have attempted at making a feature like this work, but ultimately it's something that ends up either being biased towards promotions or advertisers, or invasive...often both. I believe Google will BETA this until they see the backlash, and thanks to the news outlets picking all of this up and people like us responding, maybe they'll reconsider this.