In essence, this is spyware with a user accept feature IMHO.

From a business point of view, i can see why Google would want to do this they certainly have a huge market share when it comes to the entire 'web'.

However, that being said, from a webmasters point of view, i dont like it at all and, im sure once more people catch on to what is happening there will be lawsuits happening, all its going to take is for someone at Microsoft or Yahoo to have the Google AutoLink appear on their site/s and all hell will break loose.

Regards,

Lee