Comments on: Published Google Docs Documents To Appear In Google Search

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:04:27 +0000

thanks Martin,
Thanks to you now i know that firefox is requiring a Google login to download the pdfs, whereas Chrome and WExplorer don’t…. (¿?)
So the question remains.

By: Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:59:54 +0000

All pdf links require you to be signed in to a Google Docs account, can this be the issue?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:50:44 +0000

thanks, Martin,
but I my pdf’s are indeed public in Google docs and are linked from this google site (you can check the pdf links in the list, some are there since 2010):
https://sites.google.com/site/daniggcc/publications
And yet, those pdf’s are not indexed nor searchable (in google)

Any idea what could be going wrong?
Has the new policy announced in this post been finally applied?

By: Martin Brinkmann

Martin Brinkmann — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:25:56 +0000

Daniel they are only indexed if they have been published.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:57:40 +0000

any news on this subject?
it seems like indexing is still not happening, none of my pdfs in Google Docs are indexed yet. It would be great

By: Igor

Igor — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:17:46 +0000

I don’t understand all that moaning about indexation of published documents.

It is what web search engines were developed for. To index all accessible doucments!!! It’s that fucking simple.

Yahoo indexes google docs for ages no matter whether google will index their google docs or not.

By: Riff

Riff — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:58:14 +0000

So you are grumpy that documents published to the web are going to be indexed? Man I’m so glad they don’t index PDFs.

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By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:22:42 +0000

To be fair to Google, they also emailed admins on Google Apps accounts on how to stop documents from being publishable to the web. Frankly if you have published a document publicly to the net you should be expecting it to be found and crawled.That’s how the internet works.