[WEB4LIB] Google as Acrobat reader (!)

[Tara Calishain]

At 02:31 PM 11/15/2001, Richard Wiggins wrote:
>I just discovered something.  Google now offers a "View as HTML" link for 
>hit list entries corresponding to PDF files.  To see examples, just go to 
>Google, search for "PDF", and scroll for a hit list item that includes the 
>"View as HTML" link.
>
>Does anyone know if this is new behavior?  I know they've been indexing 
>PDFs for some months now, but I don't recall this option.
>
>I suppose this just falls out of the fact that they translate the PDF to 
>HTML and feed that to their parser and indexer, and that they also cache 
>those intermediate files, but I think it's really cool.

Actually Google now indexes several different types of files and makes them 
available as
HTML. Article:

http://www.researchbuzz.com/articles/google1106.html

Tara



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