Comments on: Practically Perfect PDF, Courtesy of Google

By: Video Production

Video Production — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:13:09 +0000

Long live PDF! This is great, I've heard that PDF's are also boosting organic SEO and far more searchable than ever before? I hope that's the case. Although, sometimes I do get ratty with PDF when it won't let me copy and paste particular segments for research, but oh well! I think PDF's are becoming the literary equivalent to video productions online.

AH
Skeleton Productions.

By: Corporate Video

Corporate Video — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:42:21 +0000

used this function this morning….really useful!

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:53:20 +0000

yet another great move by google

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:40:05 +0000

Nice feature to increase the user search experience…this helps us to avoid installing addons in the browser

By: Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post | Gizmodo Australia

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post | Gizmodo Australia — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:47:43 +0000

[...] PDFs are the one major roadblock to a nice intense Google search—you see that little indicator and you have to either download, get the shitty HTML view, or just walk away. So Google is fixing it. Now, when you see the Quick View tag, you get a nicely formatted PDF. Go ahead, try it. You’ll like it. [Technologizer] [...]

By: Remainders - Things We Didn’t Post [Remainders] | Cell Phone Tracking Blog

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:42:18 +0000

By: tom b

tom b — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:40:13 +0000

“one of those quick-to-load-and-render PDF viewers on your machine (yes, they exist, not all are as dreadfully slow as Adobe Acrobat).”

Preview beats Acrobat, hands down.

By: metacarpus

metacarpus — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:52:27 +0000

Indeed when you can load the PDF as well-formatted HTML it probably loads much quicker, unless you have one of those quick-to-load-and-render PDF viewers on your machine (yes, they exist, not all are as dreadfully slow as Adobe Acrobat).

Wonder how font formatting, vector images and exact positioning / kerning would be translated, but for a quickview that might not really matter. An “as good as it gets” view should be quite fine.

And what about the document rights? Not all PDF’s are copyright free. Is Google allowed to just cache and service these documents? Other way around: as a pdf doc owner, can you also prevent this and still have your PDF indexed?

– Abel –