Google Sheds Light On 'Dark Web' With PDF Search

CWmike writes "Google this week took another step in its effort to shed light on the so-called Dark Web, announcing that its search engine can now search scanned documents in a PDF. In April, Google announced that it was looking for ways for its search engine to index HTML forms such as drop-down boxes or select menus that otherwise couldn't be found or indexed." An announcement is available at the official Google blog, and it contains some demonstration searches.

Comments

Re:1000 years of darkness coming to an end?

[philspear]

After reading that, I've come to the conclusion that some parts of the internet should definitely remain in the dark.

Re:Just what we needed

[Arthur Grumbine]

for instance if you search for "Widget Model XJ123" it will now find a page by a manufacturer where the only place they list it is in a pulldown list that lets you choose the product to buy.

Shenanigans! And I've been looking everywhere for that elusive XJ123, since the manufacturer stopped producing it. How dare you get my hopes up!

Re:Just what we needed

[AVryhof]

for instance if you search for "Widget Model XJ123" it will now find a page by a manufacturer where the only place they list it is in a pulldown list that lets you choose the product to buy.

Shenanigans! And I've been looking everywhere for that elusive XJ123, since the manufacturer stopped producing it. How dare you get my hopes up you insensitive clod!

There. Fixed that for you.