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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!
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I for one am filled with feigned outrage, because the way slashdot presents this article dictate I be!
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