Anybody else see a bunch of PDF and other Docs?

Is this back in the SERP's again?

[ogletree]

I just did some searches and there seem to be a smattering of PDF's and word 2000 documents. It does not seem to be as bad as it was before but they are there. They seem to be listed when there is a 2nd result from the same site. I wonder if when they did it before it was a test to add later when they got it right. Part of there whole de comercializing of Google.

[ogletree]

premod bump

[iThink]

Not only PDF files are visible more frequently but I'm finding chinese/Japanese and russian sites in the results where there was no such site visible before.

[Stefan]

I have a .dat file that went online about 4 days ago... I found it as an indent serp today, with "File Format: Unrecognized - View as HTML". The html view doesn't work, of course.

[ALbino]

The fact that there are any PDFs amazes me. Does anybody find those results useful? I can't tell you how many times I've been searching for something and accidentally clicked on a PDF link just to have to wait 10 seconds while it loads Acrobat and sucks up my resources only to close it immediately and move on with my searching. A couple times I've tried to read them, but there's either nothing at all relating to what I was searching for or entirely too much information making it not worth sorting through. If I want to know how to switch windows from the keyboard in Windows XP I don't want a 200 page PDF document from some school's website detailing the curriculum for the Intro to Computers 101 class. I quickly learned to just close and move on. Surely even Google's own employees don't actually use them. The only thing I can think of is that Adobe is paying them loads of cash to have it as a 'feature'. As far as I can tell the only purpose they serve is to have confused non-computer literate friends of mine call me wondering why they can't get pages from Google to load.