Quickly View Formatted PDFs In Google Search Results

Today, Google added new links to “Quick View” PDFs in your browser with the formatting intact. The new links are based on the same technology that is available in Google Docs and Gmail, as well as to webmasters through the Google Docs viewer. Google has been rolling this technology out to the search results page since July 2009, and as of today Google added “Quick View” links to more than 50% of the PDFs in our index. The new links appear at the end of the second line of the result, right underneath the title.

For example, the Quick View link in the following search results

Quick View PDF In Google Search Results

Quick View PDF In Google Search Results

will bring you to this page with graphics, formatting and tables preserved.

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