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by inerte 5751 days ago
Scribd's HTML5 was about having crawlable (read: show up in Google) content.

Nothing wrong with that, btw.
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acqq 5751 days ago
I think it was just about "gaming Google" -- at some point the links to pages on scribd had higher ranks than original pdfs. I consider that more like successful spamming of Google search than long-term feature.

How is it now? Do they still have higher rank? I'd consider than that a bug in Google ranking.

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points 5751 days ago
It's ok, but pdf's already show up in google, and are already readable in browser.
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