Adobe Creates PDF Search Engine

Adobe has started a PDF search engine online at http://searchpdf.adobe.com/ . At least two site search engines -- Picosearch and Atomz -- offer indexing of PDF files, but this is still pretty cool. The engine -- which contrary to established Internet precedent doesn't have a cute name -- claims to index over a million documents.

The engine does have a random setting, which immediately drops you into downloading a PDF file, so I wouldn't get into that unless I was really bored. The engine is powered by AltaVista, so the standard AltaVista syntax works -- except for the domain: special syntax, since it appears that the documents reside on the Adobe servers. Ah, I see. The search result takes you to an HTML version of the document. The version includes keywords, a link to download the PDF version of the file, and the URL of the original document. Interesting.

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