Google Search’s View PDF Link May Go To Google Docs

Jul 8, 2009 at 9:36am ET by Barry Schwartz

Typically, when Google shows a PDF document in the Google search results, you see a link to "view as HTML," in the snippet. Here is a picture of what you see most of the time: Now, it appears Google is showing a link that reads just "View" and links you to the PDF within a Google Docs view. Please note that this happens on some PDFs and not all. Here is a picture of that: When you click on "View" it takes you to Google Docs. For example, for the search [triangle heights concurrency] you can see the View link and when you click on it, you are taken here, to Google Docs. Hat [...]

Filed in: Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search

Google Wants The Web To Go Faster

Jun 23, 2009 at 7:37pm ET by Greg Sterling

Google wants to make the internet faster. By speeding up the "most important computing platform of our time," Google believes that consumers and businesses will experience a wide range of benefits, many of which we can imagine, some of which might be revealed over time. There's no product or specific consumer offering here. Rather Google is trying to advocate multiple initiatives in parallel that the company believes are important to usher in a better, faster internet (including for mobile devices). This Google Code Blog post lays out the arguments and suggestions as does the video below: [...]

Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Google: General, Google: Internet Access, Google: Outside US, Google: Web Search

New Privacy Complaint Filed Against Google (And The Cloud)

Mar 18, 2009 at 7:13am ET by Greg Sterling

Yet another privacy complaint has been filed against Google with the FTC, this time by the Electronic Privacy Information Center over Google's cloud computing services and related privacy and data security issues. While Google is the named party, the company is basically the stand-in for "the cloud" as a whole. (If you want to read the complaint, you can download it here [.pdf].) Here's the thrust of the complaint: EPIC hereby petitions the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into Google’s Cloud Computing Services, to determine the adequacy of the privacy and security safeg [...]

Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Google: Gmail, Legal: Security

Google Docs Bug Shares Your Documents Without Permission

Mar 9, 2009 at 9:21am ET by Barry Schwartz

Over the weekend a confirmed Google Docs bug may have shared your private Google Documents with others, without your permission. Google said this "affected less than 0.05% of all documents." What exactly happened? "The inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom the document owner, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document," Google said. Google then unshared those documents automatically and then "emailed the document owners to point them to their affected documents in case they need to re-share them." In the mean time, data that could have been sha [...]

Filed in: Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Legal: Privacy, Top News

Google’s Recent Bugs: SMS Spam, Safe Filter Stuck, News Fonts & Google Docs Spam

Feb 3, 2009 at 9:53am ET by Barry Schwartz

In the past day or so, I have spotted at least four somewhat major bugs with Google's various products. They include Google sending dozens of unwanted SMS messages to thousands of users, Google's safe filter not working properly, Google News using an unusually large font size and Google Docs has a major spam issue as well. Besides all of these issues, don't forget about the huge malware issue with Google over the weekend. Last night, for a period of four hours, Google was sending dozens and dozens of SMS messages to users over and over again. There are hundreds of complaints in the Googl [...]

Filed in: Google: Docs & Spreadsheets, Google: Images, Google: News, Google: Web Search, Top News

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