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In all the debate about Google's AutoLink feature I've seen virtually nothing about how the AutoLink/SmartTag (AutoTag anyone?) concept could be made to work better with the notable exception of Don Park who was right on the money weeks ago Fixing AutoLink . Obviously there are points of principle that need to be debated; the right of an author not to have their content altered and allowing users to escape from a mass of inward-looking links. But rather than complaining and hoping the problem will go away, how about trying to address these issues by building a better AutoTag? Require authors to opt-in by requiring them to make their content explicitly auto-taggable. For example have them mark-up such content [see previous post ] <span class="autotag" type="address"> This is an address </span> The first time auto-taggable content of a particular 'type' is found, ask the user if (a) they want such content auto-tagged and if so the...