RE: Search engines vs. annotations

>I personnaly like the 3rd solution: it lets users embed
>annotations in their
>current web pages: annotations
>do not have to be stored on a server or in a separate annotation file.

Strange, the ability to create an annotation which can be associated with a
page without having to be embedded or linked has always struck me as the key
benefit of Annotea etc.

Cheers,
Danny.