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Google's iOS app now injects links on third-party websites that go to Search

A new feature of the Google app on iOS injects links that go back to Google Search on third-party websites unless publishers opt out.

This feature, as Google explains, “extracts interesting entities from the webpage and highlights them in line.” Effectively, it creates links on a website that you’ve opened through Google’s browser that the website’s owner did not put there. We’ve created a new feature called Page Annotation in the Google App browser for iOS. The feature, Google says, will offer an opt-out for website owners through a form.

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