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Published Google Docs To Appear In Search Engines
dotancohen writes "Google plans to make all published documents from Google Docs users crawlable, if the documents are linked from a public Web site. No official announcement appears to have been made, just a short blog post on the subject by a Google employee in a help forum. (One comment on the ghacks.net post linked above says that email was sent to the admins of Google Apps accounts.) There does not seem to be any way to make an individual document not crawlable; you can only un-publish it, at which point Web links to it will not work any more." The move makes sense from one point of view — Google is just making crawlable a document linked from another crawlable document — but it's likely to catch a lot of people by surprise.
You mean things available on the internet might be indexed by Google? Holy Cow! I wonder if other search engines also do this "indexing" thing. Mysterious and curious activities for sure, I say.
Are you saying that I can't publish a document on the Web but limit who sees it?
That's an invasion of my privacy! Next thing you know you'll be saying I can't stop people watching me bang my wife in my front yard!
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
Come on, sopssa, don't let little things like the facts get in the way of a good, sensational story!
Not as bad as Scott Hanselman saying I'm going to Google that on Bing. Can't remember what the date was, but he said it on his podcast.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
If you don't remember the date, you can always Bing it on Yahoo!
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
I for one am filled with feigned outrage, because the way slashdot presents this article dictate I be!
Similes are like metaphors
Heh.. umm.. heh.. *pushes glasses up nose* I'm supposed to .. umm ... the jihad is alive and well, heh .. but
*portly neckbeard appears*
what?
*whispering*
ok
*portly man exits*
ok anyway, we're taking it easy on Google this time and if you want to disagree with us you are required to accuse us of having rose-coloured glasses and being on a "honeymoon" with them.
If you accuse us of reading the article again, we're not.. umm.. there will be.. problems waiting for you, in fact I might not be surprised if you woke up and found a snarky reply attached to one of your comments. You do not mess with us.
*wipes cheeto crumbs from shirt*
Yeah.
*exits*
I like the term "Bung" as the past tense.
I'm shocked too. "D'oh, Google indexes publicly linked files? Who would have thought of such a thing?"
This won't take a "lot of people" by surprise but it might take a "lot of stupid people" by surprise. Which is not surprising.
"I'd much rather be mistaken as a lesbian by a bigot than be mistaken as a bigot by a lesbian."
don't let little things like the facts get in the way of a good, sensational story!
This isn't a troll, it is actually the slashdot editor creed.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.