More on Google Auto-Link (from: The Trademark Blog)
http://trademark.blog.us/blog/2005/03/03.html#a1609
Discussion of Google’s Auto-Link function continues. Of interest are:
Fred von Lohmann of EFF likening a service to a butler you ask to annotate your mail (emphaszing the ‘you ask’ and the ‘your mail’).
Washington Post article reporting that Barnes & Noble has added ISBN links to its own site in order to prevent Auto-link from whisking customers over to Amazon.
Wendy Seltzer identifying technologically similar services in the past.
SearchEngineWatch with the most exhaustive discussion of the technological/market issues I’ve come across.
Prof. Goldman discussing the ‘Google as Agent’ issue.