Published Google Docs To Appear In Search Engines 62
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.
No way! (Score:5, Funny)
Wait.. (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Summary is wrong (Score:0, Funny)
Come on, sopssa, don't let little things like the facts get in the way of a good, sensational story!
Re:Wait.. (Score:3, Funny)
Next thing you know you'll be saying I can't stop people watching me bang my wife in my front yard!
We will gladly help you to keep perverts at a distance, but you must give us the address of the front yard.
Re:No way! (Score:5, Funny)
I know! So much for Google's motto of "Don't be evil". Obviously they mean "except when indexing publicly accessible web links"! Those hypocrites!
Re:So? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So? (Score:5, Funny)
If you don't remember the date, you can always Bing it on Yahoo!
Perposterous! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I'm aghast! (Score:3, Funny)
Heh.. umm.. heh.. *pushes glasses up nose* I'm supposed to .. umm ... the jihad is alive and well, heh .. but
*portly neckbeard appears*
what?
*whispering*
ok
*portly man exits*
ok anyway, we're taking it easy on Google this time and if you want to disagree with us you are required to accuse us of having rose-coloured glasses and being on a "honeymoon" with them.
If you accuse us of reading the article again, we're not.. umm.. there will be.. problems waiting for you, in fact I might not be surprised if you woke up and found a snarky reply attached to one of your comments. You do not mess with us.
*wipes cheeto crumbs from shirt*
Yeah.
*exits*
Re:So? (Score:1, Funny)
I like the term "Bung" as the past tense.
Re:Summary is wrong (Score:2, Funny)
I'm shocked too. "D'oh, Google indexes publicly linked files? Who would have thought of such a thing?"
This won't take a "lot of people" by surprise but it might take a "lot of stupid people" by surprise. Which is not surprising.
Re:Summary is wrong (Score:2, Funny)
don't let little things like the facts get in the way of a good, sensational story!
This isn't a troll, it is actually the slashdot editor creed.