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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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Re: Google is inserting search links into webpages
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2024, 05:50:14 AM »
Ah! I just wrote about this a few weeks ago. TLDR: they're not links to other sites or Google pages, but trigger widgets similar to iOS' "look up" button that appears in the text selection menu. The issue is that they look like links and cross the line to page alteration.
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