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| PDFs on the visible / invisible Web |
| Author: | Chris |
| Date: | Wednesday, 8th Sep 2004 15:02 |
| Views: | 2,468 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b29887 |
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How prevalent are PDFs in Web publishing? Why are they used in preference to other file formats? (mi)
Well, it’s a vaguely (but not entirely) work-related question that I’ve been gnawing on for a couple of days. What I really want to do is get a sense of how important the capability to search and interpret PDFs really is to an enterprise search application. I’ve found a couple of raw statistics – eg 13 million PDFs searched by Google when they launched file format search in 2001 – but I’d like to better understand how widely they’re used on the invisible Web too: particularly corporate intranets and the like.
So, in a nutshell:
* How prevalent are PDFs on the Web / intranets?
* Are there types of sites that use them more often than others eg government sites, particular types of businesses?
* Why do people publish documents on the Web / intranets in PDF rather than other file formats?
Anecdotal input from anyone working with content management very welcome!
Thanks,
Chris
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 | PDFs on the visible / invisible Web | | How prevalent are PDFs in Web publishing? Why are they used in preference to other file formats? (mi)
Well, it’s ... |
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Chris |
08/09/04 15:02 |
29887 |
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Frans |
22/09/04 06:17 |
30006 |
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Michelle Taylor |
17/09/04 10:00 |
29964 |
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Gareth Lodge |
16/09/04 08:50 |
29948 |
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Bill Raschen |
16/09/04 10:08 |
29950 |
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Peter Kaiser |
10/09/04 15:13 |
29910 |
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S.W.Schilke |
10/09/04 12:16 |
29905 |
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S.W.Schilke |
09/01/05 13:18 |
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 | Re: PDFs on the visible / invisible Web | | Hi,
take a look at http://www.researchindex.com (academic papers) or other sites with academic or business papers (in German, e.g., http://www.competence-site.de).
You ... |
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S.W.Schilke |
10/09/04 11:56 |
29904 |
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Darron Thevarajah |
17/09/04 08:52 |
29962 |
| | accessbile PDFs | | I am very interested in replies to the posting by Darron Thevarajah.
My company is getting more and more requests ... |
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Hilary Russell |
21/09/04 18:55 |
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