Injecting links into websites carries security and privacy risks. While one might trust the automated process behind the scenes and Google’s own security controls, it will be a concern that such links are automatically applied and take users away from the website they have elected to visit.

This new feature allows users to quickly search for additional context about a term or phrase. But some website owners may not be happy. Here's why.

Google is injecting the links into pages you visit through the Google app's built-in web browser, which display a pop-up panel of Google Search results related to the word or phrase. Google's announcement said web publishers can opt-out by submitting a form,

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,

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.

Google is now inserting its own links to Google Search result cards into third-party webpages. The feature, called Page Annotations, is now live in the Google app for iOS. Web publishers can opt-out of Page Annotations,