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They should not put any links to a damn search engine in such texts. If people want to Google "Sanskrit", I'm sure they will manage.
by BasDirks 10y ago
They should not put any links to a damn search engine in such texts. If people want to Google "Sanskrit", I'm sure they will manage.
- dsfuoi 10y agoSo according to your logic, link to this article should be removed and anyone wanting to find it should manage. I also find it delightfully ironic that you used the term to Google "Sanskrit". and not to WolframAlpha "Sanskrit". Hypocrisy is oozing out of your comment.
- BasDirks 10y agoI was not very careful in phrasing my previous comment. I was thinking of a situation where a Google employee puts links in the actual copy of an article not primarily about search engines. I find it more permissible in the case of WolframAlpha, because it calls itself a knowledge engine, and provides carefully curated content. Google is a more generic beast, and I just don't think it makes sense to litter a text with hyperlinks. If I see a link, I will presume that the author wants me to click it and read it. If it is very general "further reading", I prefer having these presented after the main material. A lot of preferences and assumptions on my part. My gripe with OP is how it integrates the product into the text. I like hyperlinks, but I prefer separation of copy and generic resources.