Some Media Do Too Much Meta

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Look at this CBS Marketwatch article. All the options attached to company names (BUD: news, chart, profile) are (ARSE: news, chart, profile) overwhelming (OVER: news, chart, profile) and come in the way of readability. How about showing the links as a menu when the user hovers the mouse cursor on hotlinked names? Or putting some of that information as hover text, much like Trillian does with stock quotes?

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