Google is inserting search links into webpages in the Google App now

The Google App for iOS can automatically convert some website text into links to Google Search results, as announced in a community post that SERoundtable spotted.

Google calls the feature “Page Annotations” and says it “extracts interesting entities from the webpage and highlights them in line,” which can then take you out to Search results when you tap them — inserting links without explicitly asking the user or the site owner first. It seems like a curious...