Comments on: Google Adds “Quick View” of PDFs to SERPs

By: Efrain Fidsky

Efrain Fidsky — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:51:49 +0000

thanks very helpful post!

By: Get Indexed MSN

Get Indexed MSN — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:42:50 +0000

I’m glad (lol) to view that SOMEONE SOMEWHERE finally posted something informative about search engine optimization.

By: Bad Monkey

Bad Monkey — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:19:23 +0000

Indexing/caching HTML is one thing and understandable – sorry, but get over it – the “cached” link also has a semantic meaning and the visitor understands what they are looking at.

Ripping documents like PDFs off sites and presenting them in a Google branded viewer however is something quite different, and obviously blatant copyright infringement.

I think this is just a fancy viewer. The problem is the webmaster will be seeing stats credited to the Google server, but that’s the only real issue. I await to be proven wrong.

By: Simda

Simda — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:18:56 +0000

Sad news and again confirmation Google is trying to keep the user at the Google domain longer and longer.

Eventually Google will be able to more or less answer any question, since every other website is embedded in the Google domain.

They’re definitely playing it smart, but IMHO it’s about time to put a hold on this nonsense.

You don’t want to be recognised in Street View when you’re doing something embarrassing? How could we know, just file a complaint. You don’t want your website indexed? Just modify your robots.txt. You don’t want us to steal your PDF? ….How could we know you didn’t want that?!
They’re pushing it more and more and I don’t like it.

By: Samad

Samad — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:18:26 +0000

Yes, a great tool, however, I can confirm that it does not appear in the server logs. That concerns me as we’ll never know the stats.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:18:02 +0000

There is some good for the end user in this new feature. But I’m wondering if each “Quick View” will still require a visit to the site’s server – it sounds like it won’t. For instance, I don’t think the html view required a visit either, it’s just served up by Google.

So it looks like one more way that Google Search can distribute a site’s content without requiring a direct visit to the site itself – and in this case, it’s an entire document, not just a snippet. And the intention is to roll this out for other file format types, too.