Real Life Internet Evil s Microsoft Smart Tags

Real Life Inteet Evil s Microsoft Smart Tags Our goal with this series is the use of examples of real life, deceit, fraud and other evils that shows how you can protect better. The examples cited in these articles is to demonstrate best practices and recommendations. You have worked hard on your web pages. If you're anything like me, you spent hours and hours of content writing, research or the creation of charts, tables, a curse, and juggling schedules to lea HTML and CSS, perhaps, Java, DHTML, and countless other things. My site is located in a mine. This is a product of my imagination, my sweat, my brain and my frustration. I have many sleepless nights and countless long days adding just the perfect content to communicate what I meant. Now, Microsoft has combined with a "brilliant" idea. Piggyback want them selected the content of this work. The idea is that their products (such as Inteet Explorer and the Office suite) scan Web pages and documents for key words and phrases, which the Microsoft. Each of these, which will be equipped with a special purple "Squiggle" to show that they are "smart tag". Anyone viewing the page could then click Smart Tags and a Microsoft Web site for more information. For example, you can use a web page on the Grand Canyon, and the term "Grand Canyon" could be underlined, allowing your visitors to the site about travel booking Expedia.Com for the region. Because Microsoft wants to do this? It 'really very simple - for the incredible sum of money. See it, Microsoft would suddenly every single document for a new Microsoft product as a potential indicator. Wow. This is the power. No, this is an understatement of incredible dimensions. This is more than power - this is the use of all the creative energies in a huge advertising tool in the world. It staggers the imagination throughout. It could be a newspaper website, read an article on the train and click on numerous links to sites of Microsoft (and probably the third party sites ", which is the privilege for Microsoft) train selling products and related services. When you read the ads in the same place selling a car magazine, the word "Cadillac", it could one day with a smart link to a Cadillac dealer. Content (tag) are dynamically to Web pages by the browser, without the consent of the person that the pages (the webmaster or author). Although strictly speaking, can not be against copyright laws (but could be acts of vandalism), with certainty, it is impolite. In reality, most people would be highly immoral. For example, you bought a book about a book club. Before it was you, someone opened the book and examined every single page, adding comments here and there may be upon you and lea more about them. It would be very annoying when the author will probably be furious if I am the publisher of the book, and will almost certainly retu, if the score. Carefully web pages whose look and feel "was built with love for hours and hours with their designers, writers, artists and webmasters would be random trash by a company that has been siphoning away visitors to their pages and websites. And what is the problem of inappropriate content? Suppose you had a Web site that is against animal cruelty, but it was before adding smart tags to pages of links to other sites, which sold muzzles for horses? If you do not want you, right? Another problem is that Smart Tags are "opt-out". This means that the tags unless you are incorporated (the webmaster or the user) suggest that you do not want. Opt-out is the preferred method for removal of many advertisers, because I understand that most people do not bother to get the list. Opt-in is the preferred method for most consumers, because they receive only what they have. Webmasters can smart tags to work with them and also a special "opt-out" metatag in the header of each page. I recommend that all webmasters that tag to ensure that the smart tag to operate. As soon as the smart tag in a beta version of Windows XP, the uproar began. E 'was great to see. Microsoft hit by all sides from all over just because their intentions were so transparent and so blatantly monopolistic that even the Conservatives could see what they are up a. The dangers of an avalanche of protests to be received by large enterprises, so much so that Microsoft was forced to feature their products. "As a result of smart tags in beta versions of Windows XP and Inteet Explorer, we received many comments, and have recognized that a better balance between the users and the legitimate conces of content providers and Web sites", Microsoft said In a statement on 28 June, 2001. Keep an eye on Microsoft, because he added: "Microsoft is committed to this type of technology, and work closely with content providers and industry partners in the coming months to further refine the way in which it can be used. "