Published Google Docs To Appear In Search Engines

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.

Good

[Tsiangkun]

This does nothing to the docs I've shared with other gmail users or people with google accounts, while enhancing the web presence of the documents I've explicitly published as web pages.

I expect web pages to be crawled, indexed, and searchable.
I see this as a good thing.

Viruses

[ACMENEWSLLC]

A large number of the e-mail viruses I see have links to a Google Groups site, which then play a video or have other embedded content that utilizes and exploit to try and load malware. Often, XP Antivirus and the variants. Many of these are showing up in Google results too.

What do you think are the odds that exploited documents will be published to these documents too?