{"id":153,"date":"2005-03-02T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2005\/03\/02\/i-hate-to-say-it-but-google-is-a-little-bit-busted\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T21:47:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T04:47:38","slug":"i-hate-to-say-it-but-google-is-a-little-bit-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/i-hate-to-say-it-but-google-is-a-little-bit-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate to say it, but Google is a little bit busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Google. In the spirit of that love, I point out something about my dear friend that is bugging me, and point you, gentle reader, at a petition addressed to Google, requesting a change.<\/p>\n<p>Google has recently debuted a feature in their web browser add-on toolbar called AutoLink. What it does is turn text in webpages into links to things related to them--for example, addresses, book ISBN numbers, etc., are turned into links to...uh, I haven't seen it myself, but I assume, maps to the addresses, web pages about the books (perhaps in some online store?) I have no problem with Google providing these links to their toolbar users. What bothers me is that they are altering people's web pages without the publisher's consent.<\/p>\n<p>If that bothers you too, please sign the online petition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/googauto\/petition.html\">Google, Please AutoLink Ethically<\/a>. The petition requests that web pages only be altered by AutoLink if the web page contains some sort of opt-in tag authorizing it, and that for pages not authorizing it, the links be moved out of the web page, and into a menu on the toolbar, or some such place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Google. In the spirit of that love, I point out something about my dear friend that is bugging me, and point you, gentle reader, at a petition addressed to Google, requesting a change. Google has recently debuted a feature in their web browser add-on toolbar called AutoLink. What it does is turn text...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/i-hate-to-say-it-but-google-is-a-little-bit-busted\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-issuesproblems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}