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Google your PDFs

By Rowan Hanna on 8 October, 2009 | , No Comment

Today Techwhack report that Google have updated their PDF search feature to include a  quick view option. By using this, you’ll be able to take a look at a formatted version of the PDF without having to spawn a PDF viewer.

Google spoke about this new feature:

Today, we’ve added new links to “Quick View” PDFs in your browser with the formatting intact. The new links are based on the same technology that’s available in Google Docs and Gmail, as well as to webmasters through the Google Docs viewer.

I was able to see this by searching for “Plagarism New1” and then clicking the Quick View option.

Pretty impressive, I thought…

Read the full article from TechWhack >>

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