Re: Affiliate Opportunity: Google Now Indexes PDF’s

Sam Harrelson — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:41:24 -0000

They're now doing the OCR work for you for free. So, no need to scan in PDF's if you don't have a copy in that format anymore.

Business usage aside, that's great for people like academics who rely on a lot of PDF journals, etc.

Pretty nifty example of what cloud computing can do.

Shawn Collins — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:53:01 -0000

Any idea how this is different from what they've been doing?

I've had PDFs indexed in Google for years - one example is the top result on this query: http://www.google.com/searc...

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