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wilderness - 6:50 pm on Nov 3, 2008 (gmt 0)


In addition, Google has a long history of travelling into directories that are exlcuded (by request) in robots.txt to retrieve PDF files!

I offer several pdfs, put in that format for a REASON. Just checked google and see that for two of those they offer ViewHTML for those titles. Looks like farmer's friend. Worse, the "title" is totally fubarred...and was used for the PDF listing! Not liking this at all.

Nor am I tangor!
I've many files that could easily be viewed as text or html, where that my original intent. That I at least offerring a viewing option in the PDF format is beyond a necessary comprehension and/or explantion reason for Google or any other bot.

Has anybody seen their PDF's that have been password encrypted, being OCR'd by Google and listed in SERPS?


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