Sunday, September 20, 2009

Your Google docs: Soon in search results?

September 19, 2009 6:31 PM PDT

Your Google docs: Soon in search results?

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Google on Thursday wrote in a blog post
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=0ca72389c9b26ef4&hl=en
that "in about two weeks, we will be launching a change for published
docs. The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a
public Web site to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in
search results you see on Google.com and other search engines...This is a
very exciting change as your published docs linked to from public websites
will reach a much wider audience of people."

"Marie" of Google was quick to note that the crawling for search results
"only applies to docs which you explicitly publish using the 'Publish as
Web page' or 'Publish/embed' option, and which are linked to from a
publicly crawled Web page" (documents for which users choose only to
"allow anyone with the link to view" will not get crawled, she wrote,
adding that users can unpublish documents they wish to remain uncrawled).

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10357137-2.html?tag=mncol;posts

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