Comments on: View Documents Online With Google Docs Viewer

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:36:39 +0000

Jojo it opens the documents in a Google Docs interface in the web browser.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:12:05 +0000

Is this just a “viewer” or does it actually open the document in the browser? I can imagine potential problems with Word or Excel for instance where macros might be enabled automatically, which could get you infected with a virus.

With Office docs, I generally prefer to download them and then scan them before opening.

By: George

George — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:16:10 +0000

Not so bad as a service, but it supports too few document types. I tried View Docs Online (www.viewdocsonline.com) and it offers more options and it supports many document types. Surprising that Google is not able to do something better without asking for a registration.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:09:22 +0000

A bookmarklet may come in handy like the TiniEye one that detects automatically the avaliable documents and allow you to select the one you you are interested in.

By: dwarf_tossr

dwarf_tossr — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:42:32 +0000

For those that use and love it, more power to, but I had a bad experience with it. Namely, I found out by accident one day that I had inadvertently shared some semi-personal docs (thankfully, nothing really sensitive) with some random internet d-bag. I apparently was supposed to ‘opt-out’ of this behavior (which I still don’t know how to). The damn thing saves copies of everything and shares them with….the world! Gee, thanks google!

I just deleted what I could, and deleted the random strangers from seeing what I posted. Lesson learned: cloud computing is a privacy disaster waiting to happen.

Do yourselves a favor, grab foxit reader and Openoffice and use those instead!