Microsoft to Change Smart Tags Feature

Jun 17, 2001 17:30 · 108 words · 1 minute read

Yahoo! Groups : decentralization: _“Because of the — and there’s no better word for it, we’re shocked —

uproar, the following changes are going to be made:

  1. smart tags off by default (they were on by default to exercise the code,

get Watson crashes)

  1. the user-overrides-authored-meta-tag option removed

  2. no recognizers shipping in box. So until you do have a recognizer

installed, when you click on the smart tag button, you get navigated to a

gallery from which you can download desired recognizers.”_ To me, this reads like good news. The smart tags feature, implemented as above, gives everyone involved flexibility (including site owners), and that’s a good thing.