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Your Google docs: Soon in search results? | Webware – CNET

Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets accustomed to publicly publishing their documents might want to rethink exactly how publicly available they want to them to be.

Google on Thursday wrote in a blog post that “in about two weeks, we will be launching a change for published docs. The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public Web site to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.com and other search engines…This is a very exciting change, as your published docs linked to from public Web sites will reach a much wider audience of people.”

via Your Google docs: Soon in search results? | Webware – CNET.

Tags: CNET News, Google Apps, Google Docs, search.

Embeddable Google Document Viewer

Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don’t have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available online.

via Embeddable Google Document Viewer.

Tags: Document Viewer, embed, Embeddable, Google Docs, PDF files, presentations

google-docs-upload – Project Hosting on Google Code

A tool for batch upload documents to a Google Docs account with recursive traversing of directories. The tool supports PDF upload.

Total list of supported formats: csv, doc, docx, html, htm, ods, odt, pdf, ppt, pps, rtf, sxw, tsv, tab, txt, xls, xlsx.

To run the application you need Java 1.6 or greater installed.

via google-docs-upload – Project Hosting on Google Code.

Tags: application, Batch Upload, documents, Google Docs, Java 1.6

Let Search Engines Index Your Google Documents and Presentations

If you have a pile of documents and presentations stored in your Google Docs account that you want to world to find via search engines, here’s a workaround.

The Problem with Google Docs

While Google Docs is a great place for uploading documents that you want to share with the world, there’s one basic problem with that approach – most people won’t ever find your public Google documents on the Internet unless they have the direct URLs.

via Let Search Engines Index Your Google Documents and Presentations.

Tags: Collaborative, Digital Inspiration, Docstoc, documents, Google Docs, index, Issuu, presentations, Scribd, Search Engine, sharing, SlideShare

Hey , Google , get off o’ my cloud

As they tend to do with everything else Google are maintaining a strong presence in the growing market for providing key business software and infrastructure as a service.

Just this month they have elevated their ready-to-use cloud computing product ‘Google Apps’ from beta status sending out a clear signal that this is no longer seen as ‘experimental’ and confers it status as a product in its own right.

Google Apps is a web accessible platform that provides storage and functionality to a business to run a mail server and office documentation editing capability. It’s really made up of three elements: Gmail with domain personalisation, Google Docs and Google Sites.

via Hey , Google , get off o’ my cloud . » Via Consulting.

Tags: Gmail, Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Sites, IaaS, Infrastructure as a Service, Via Consulting

Official Google Blog: Google Translate now speaks 51 languages

We spend a lot of time thinking about how information travels around the globe. After all, there are Googlers living and working in dozens of countries — and we’re pretty sure our products are used in many more. So we’re familiar with the need to translate information across borders, and we’ve been working hard to build the technology to enable you to do just that. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve added nine new languages to Google Translate: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. That means that Google Translate now supports 51 languages and 2550 language pairs — including all 23 official EU languages.

via Official Google Blog: Google Translate now speaks 51 languages.

Tags: Google, Google Docs, Google Translate, information, languages, localize, translation

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Docs: now with translation

To make sharing content easier, Google just added the ability to translate documents into Google Docs

via Official Google Enterprise Blog: Google Docs: now with translation.

Tags: Google, Google Docs, languages, localize, sharing, translation