[briansmith]

The main problem I have with Scribd is that it is often out-ranking the original documents in search results on Google and elsewhere. In order to find the document in the format I want, I have to redo the search with "-site:scribd.com".

The second problem with scribd is that gives you two choices for viewing documents: too tiny to see in a tiny little box with a bunch of junk surrounding it in the browser window, or full screen and blurry as hell. Their comparisons with Adobe Reader are laughable when Reader has been displaying everything perfectly since the 90's.

The third huge problem with Scribd is that they make you sign up to get the document in its original (inevitably better) format.