word and pdf documents

ddunfee at city-net.com ddunfee at city-net.com
Sat Jan 19 16:39:42 EST 2002


Recently we have discussed access to word and pdf documents for linux
users.  A possible approach has occured.  On google search, if a file on
the web is an url, google will translate it into html and/or text for
viewing.  If we could induce google to look at a url where a file is stored
on a web page of our choice, it would do the conversion for us.  I wonder
if those recent pdf files not accessible are converted by google?  Does
anyone have an example of one which we could ask google to seek to test
this?  Google ranks search results by number of links to a given url.  If
we set up a page with a wierd title and start to link to it and then ask
google to search for that wierd name, can we force it to find and convert
files on it?  Just some thoughts for a possible solution.





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