[WEB4LIB] Re: Google indexing the invisible Web

[Avi Rappoport]

Not only are they indexing PDFs (sometimes), they're also doing some 
dynamic pages with ? in the URL.

I think this is a good thing -- there is really valuable information 
in those documents that is missing when you just search simple static 
HTML pages.

Avi

At 7:39 AM -0800 2/7/01, Walt_Crawford at notes.rlg.org wrote:
>On a wildly different topic: has anyone else run into Google's new and
>slightly peculiar feature--namely, indexing PDFs?
>
>I encountered it accidentally, doing a vanity search (for "Cites &
>Insights," because it took Google so long to show it--at least 6-8 weeks
>after it was introduced). Suddenly, the current issue turns up, with a
>portion of the text--and a click on a "text version" icon yields...well, a
>pretty poor rendition, although most of the text is there somewhere.
>
>This appears to be an effort to "index the invisible Web." I'm not entirely
>thrilled about the idea (but not yet ready to set spider repellers). Is
>this going to improve retrieval in general?



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