Google's new Toolbar has the capacity to insert links into web pages. The links point to things like maps from Google's map service and definitions from answer.com. Some in the blogosphere have not reacted well to this development, Dave Winer for example launching a barrage of criticism. There is no question in my mind that Google ought to be allowed to do this - we work under the assumption that Google will allow me to do the same to its pages, and that Toorbar advertisers will allow me to use and repurpose their content. Rip, Mix, Feed. I think the constarnation in the blogosphere arises from the idea that commercial publishers are doing to blogs what those very same agencies were suing bloggers for doing to them. We know by now that these companies will pretty much ignore any licensing you put on your webpage - the 'non-commercial' constraint on my Creative commons license doesn't even slow them down. But hey, that's OK, and I can't wait to see what the blogosphere has in mind now that it's OK to do to Google what Google does to us.
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