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Stephen Downes

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A new feature in the Google Toolbar, one which inserts links to useful resources into web pages - whether the webpage author wants them there or not - is drawing the ifre of webpage designers. "How long," asks this writer, "will it be before Google starts offering paid partnerships to certain parters to link their data directly from your pages to theirs?" Microsoft, of course, tried the same thing with Smart Tags a few years back. Here's the OLDaily coverage of smart tags from 2001; I also wrote an article about them back then: Education, Redmond style.

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