On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:46 PM, James A. Donald <[1]jamesd@echeque.com>
   wrote:

     As a matter of fact, it still does work.

   It works far less, though, since most people expect others to rely on
   search engines, so they don't bother to link anymore.
   Here's a thought: browser extension that stores your "personal" web
   index, and gives you a typeahead menu when you write about concepts in
   your index, prompting you to convert phrases to links. Like the way
   Facebook always wants to convert the names of people and pages to tags.
   Even if it were just primed with Wikipedia, that would drastically
   reduce the amount of Google searching people need to do when reading
   stuff you write.

References

   1. mailto:jamesd@echeque.com