Google’s Spiders Ready to Expose your Google Docs to the World
From the TheNextWeb blog:
“…Google just announced in an email to Google App admins that starting “in a few weeks” Google Docs published and shared to users outside of one’s domain and linked to from a public website will be crawled, indexed and appear in Google search results. “This is a very exciting change as your published docs linked to from public websites will reach a much wider audience of people,” said Google in its announcement…”
Excited?! No… they said “very excited.” Yea, we want our documents read by a “much wider audience.” Not! And I thought document metadata was high risk.
The blog goes on to say…
“Thankfully, Google has given Google App admins the ability to regulate sharing to users outside of their domain. However, the sharing options that Google currently offers are not nearly as granular as they need to be. Businesses using Google Apps may likely want tiers of users giving some the ability to share while prohibiting others. In addition, a business might also want to allow sharing with users of specific domains while prohibiting all others…”
This will kill Google Docs or relegate it to a niche market. What law firm or company wants a document accidentally indexed and shown to the world? It only has to happen once. A miss step on Google’s part. Trust me, enterprises are not going to trust their users to not “publicly publish”.
Man… right when I was going to put resources into this platform! Forget that…for now. Then, if Google uses attenuated terms like “document management” or “knowledge management” they may get some traction.
Can someone recommend an organic spider insecticide?
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