Thanks. I'm not currently developing any pages, it only the ones I have been visiting.
I'm actually surprised that MS has not gotten into any legal trouble over this. Not only are the smart tags a possibility for a site to loose business to the competition, but what about all those people with personal home pages that are not being compensated for the "free advertising" they are doing? -----Original Message----- From: Fluffy Bananachunks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 2:54 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: IE 6 Poll On Friday 05 October 2001 02:01 pm, you wrote: > You know I installed it a few weeks ago and I can't remember if it asked > for an Install path or not. Since it was while using Windows Update I'm > guessing you can't. > > This brings up a topic though that I have been meaning to post. Any other > IE 6 users out there noticing strange hyperlinks on pages now? It seems > that when IE finds certain keywords in the text of a site, it make a yellow > hyperlink of it and takes you to another web page. So let's say I own ABC > insurance company. Obviously I'm going to have the word "insurance" on my > page somewhere. Now thanks to Uncle Bill at MS, I'm now linking to my > compeditors for free and there is nothing I can do about it. Also, if I run > a Blog and use the word insurance, I'm now doing free advertising on a > personal web site that I host myself. > > Sorry, didn't mean to rant and get OT here but I just wondered if anyone > else has seen this? > > Dan Phillips > CFXHosting.com > DOWN WITH MS SMARTTAGS!! Make sure this is in the head of any pages you make from here on out =D <meta content="true" name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" /> (if this is incorrect, may I please get the correct meta from someone?) Geo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
