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And ban the use of PDF's - which is another way this could be avoided. Oh and mandate clean links no funky javascipt links that search crawlers don't follow.
by walshemj 6y ago
And ban the use of PDF's - which is another way this could be avoided.
Oh and mandate clean links no funky javascipt links that search crawlers don't follow.
- bawolff 6y agoSearch engines can index pdfs.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoProvided the content is not encrypted.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoI stand corrected: encrypted PDFs are indexed unless a password is set. However, in the past they were unable to do so[0]: "Generally we can index textual content (written in any language) from PDF files that use various kinds of character encodings, provided they're not password protected or encrypted." [0] https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/09/pdfs-in-google-search-results https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/09/pdfs-in-go...
- bawolff 6y agoI think the assumption is that encrypted pdfs would not be used here because users still have to view these documents
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoNo, the PDF standard explicitly allows encryption without the need to set up user password; in this case, the owner password is set. The only change for the user is that the word "Secured" usually appears next to the filename in the reader.
- walshemj 6y agoYeh but they don't work as well and wont be as discoverable
- lmkg 6y agoPer the main project link, the pricing information required to be posted in JSON format with specific schema and file names.
- breischl 6y agoJSON is allowed, but not required. They just required open, non-proprietary, formats. They specifically gave YAML and XML as other examples.