[pchelpers] Re: Several interesting articles

Thankyou for looking it over more carefully. I must get out of the habit 
of scanning over articles too quickly. So much of the useful detail is 
missed that way. It's an easy habit to get into when daily email climbs 
into the hundreds. The intellitext links were the ones commented on here.

If I read you right, you got different results with different browsers. 
Doesn't this suggest the browser itself is programmed with links that 
automatically pop up on certain key words (whether the links are in the 
web page code or not)? If so, then this may be an example of people 
paying browser writers to link certain words in any site to their 
advertising pages. This kind of thing has come up before on the web 
where advertisers can get visitors from any website by planting them in 
the browser. Webmasters have little or no control over that (webmaster 
gritting teeth here) :-(  I got this result with Firefox 1.0.2.

Scott McNay wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>The only word "website" that I can find on that page is not linked.
>The only word "hardware" that I can find is in the very next
>paragraph, and it isn't linked either.
>
>  "Well, who else can be better at introducing Promise Technology Inc.
>  other than Promise themselves? So, here are some excerpts from their
>  website :-
>
>  "With more than 16 years of hardware engineering experience, "...
>
>I opened the site in IE, and saw lots of new links, which were yellow
>with the double-underlines that indicate intellitext links; are those
>what you're talking about? I don't think I've ever seen intellitext
>links to be anything but advertising.
>
>At the bottom of the page, it says this:
>
>   "Help Support ARP!
>
>   "If you like this site and/or this article, please help support us
>   by clicking on the IntelliTXT ads or any of the banners. Thanks!"
>
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