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"PDFs, the file format often used for \"official\" documents and typically opened with the frustratingly slow Adobe Reader, are starting to get much more manageable, thanks to companies like Scribd and Docstoc, which make them embeddable, and Google, who has built its own web-based PDF viewer into Gmail and Google Docs.\nNow, that same functionality has arrived in Google search results.  PDFs now include a \u201Cquick view\u201D link, which opens up the given file in your web browser.  From there, Google has options like zoom, paging, print, and search.  The company says that they\u2019ve been able to do this for more than half of the PDFs in its index \u2013 the ones that haven't yet been converted will still have the \u201CView as HTML\u201D option if you\u2019d like to avoid the download.  \nThis feature has been one of my favorite additions to Gmail, as it eliminates the need to download and then open a PDF on the desktop with Adobe Reader, which can grind system performance to a halt.  Now that it\u2019s a part of search results too, there aren\u2019t too many scenarios in which you\u2019ll still need to view PDFs the old fashioned way.  And that's a good thing."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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