There is another name for AutoLinks.
It is Adware.

I like Google, but they shouldn't be messing around with a site's web pages.

Some adware subverts google searches and the "Search Assistant" takes over and gives you their results, pretending to be Google.

Autolink is no different.

My website has information on it for my visitors. I don't want google or anyone else sending them to another site.

This means I have to go find all the ISBNs on my site and either remove them, hide them or link them.

Google has conveniently forgotten its own words.

"Do no evil".

The Google logo already has one horn on the "g". It just needs another to balance it and they should be painted red.

Maybe they are doing it to help destroy IE's lead and prepare for the introduction of their own browser.

What if Microsoft came out with a patch that disabled the google and yahoo and alexa toolbars and installed its own? (aren't they supposed to be the evil empire)

What if the Firefox browser team thinks this is a great idea and instead of taking you to where you want to go, they redirect you to sites they partner with?

You know that if Google does this and there are no complaints, that the copycats will start doing the same and worse - and the gbrowser will do it too.

This is the thin end of the wedge and it has to be stopped before it mutates into something worse.

"Do as much evil as possible".

Alan Gray.
http://newsblaze.com