Smart Tags

[ihelpyou]

Here is an article by an MS employee and all the MS spin about smart tags:

http://scriptingnews.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1254

sheesh. They truly think they are not changing our content? All they want to do is make money off their advertisers at all web site's expense. sheesh.

[ihelpyou]

BTW, the url above has to be copied paste into your address bar. The software will not include links with a dollar sign in it. ($)

[MazY]

Over the past seven years or so I have had the good fortune to meet quite a few MS employees, especially the "evangelists". Yes, they really do call them that!

There is not one that I could point out and say that he or she is not truly dedicated to the work that they do. And all of them have been very very bright individuals!

This one, however, has to be the worst writer that I have ever come across. The ugly duckling of the group perhaps?

[JuniorHarris]

Perhaps!~

One would think with all that brilliance they would develop their own search engine and integrate it into the next Microslug operating system of the month!

Was that Whistler or Yukon that is next...oh by the way don't forget your certification has expired!~;)

[MazY]

Originally posted by JuniorHarris
oh by the way don't forget your certification has expired!~;)


Spooooooky. Actually they have both expired!

I'm no longer a fully paid up member of the Microsoft club!

[Hope]

I find it is one of the most user friendly, productive tool we have create since "auto-complete".

This is another "feature" from MS that I really hate.

Smart tags I argue actully make an authors work better, more efective if for no other reason it makes it possible for every reader to extract the maximum amount of "learning" from each thing they read in the most productive manner.

So what he is saying is that we don't know our jobs? Or is he saying that we just don't know how to write?

Now that we have been completely insulted and told we are incompetent, they expect us to all running back to MS and beg them to improve and expand the Smart Tag technology. Do they really buy into their own propaganda?

[MazY]

LOL Yes, trust me, they really really do!

[markymark]

I dunno Maz, I know a few people at MS over in Seattle and some have a healthy cynicism. Mind you one I know very well did get a bit of a bollocking for installing a flavour of Linux on his work PC at the same time as Windows 2000 came out.

[MazY]

You perhaps know a few more on a personal level than I do. I have only dealt with them on a professional basis. Yes, the almost blind belief can be annoying at times but at the same time I admire it hugely.

They are certainly rewarded greatly for their blind devotion!

[Chris_D]

Just add the appropriate tag to your pages - and then you don't need to worry about M$ $martTag$ Stealing your content....

<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true">

[Alan Perkins]

Welcome to the forums Chris_D :hi:

You may enjoy the Epic "I am furious" thread in the Search Engine News and Chat Area (http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/f22/s) - covers smart tags and spyware extensively...

[ihelpyou]

Welcome to the forums Chris_D! :hi:

[rmridgew]

I have never seen smart tags (that I know of) what do I look for?
and how important is this tag? Does it do anything but keep smarttags from being inserted?