Snap Preview Anywhere

Check it out, I'm test running Snap Preview Anywhere on my blog right here.

It's a new service from the Snap search engine. Now, whenever your mouse hovers over a link in one of my posts you get an instant thumbnail preview of the contents of that link.  You can see for yourself by hovering over the above two links.

Installation is a snap (pun intended). I just signed-up and received a short javascript snippet to embed in my blog. I put it in the News field of my Global Settings.

Naturally there's some loss of privacy here as I've provided Snap with my blog address, my email address and the clicks my readers may or may not be making from my blog.

What do you make of it? Is this a useful gadget? An annoying toy? A breach of privacy? I need your opinions.

PS - By default Snap Preview Anywhere takes charge of all the links in the page. This can be turned off so that you choose specific links for which the preview will be displayed. This is done by tweaking the javascript snippet. Also by default, each preview contains a Snap searchbox. This too can be undone.