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Brad

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Google is inserting search links into webpages
« on: November 26, 2024, 10:55:21 AM »
Google is inserting search links into webpages in the Google App now

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/24305922/google-app-ios-inserting-search-links-websites

You have to opt-out.


Apps are bad, Google apps are evil.
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Re: Google is inserting search links into webpages
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2024, 11:45:42 AM »
"Google App for iOS"

So is this app an Iphone/Ipad Chrome browser?
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Re: Google is inserting search links into webpages
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2024, 04:49:55 PM »
Sounds like something Google did about 20 years ago.  Can't remember the name of the feature, but suspect they quickly rolled it back after the uproar.
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Re: Google is inserting search links into webpages
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2024, 04:59:50 PM »
That took some digging...

It stuck in memory as was one of the very few times I've been quoted in a newspaper.  Early SEO agency career days...

https://web.archive.org/web/20050914190253/http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/search/story/0,15886,1458696,00.html

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