September 22, 2009

Your Google Apps Documents may be found whit Google Search

Now you should watch out for what kind of documents you create in Google Apps.

With cloud computing, it follows also with a number of potential problems. As a policy, and who actually owns the information you store.

Now comes Google with a new service that might get someone to think extra carefully about such issues. Documents you create with Google Docs should namely be searchable through the company's searchengine.
- This allows published documents that are linked to it from a public website will be "crawled" and indexed, Google writes in a blog post.

A new study from IDC shows that Google Docs is used in every fifth company.

But that is not the Data Inspectorate that shall go in falsetto, highlights Google that it does not apply to all documents creating the office suite. You have to select that you want them public when you save the document, and you should have full control of this yourself. It should be mentioned that the ability to store documents that the public is not new. What is new is that they can easily be search out via Google.

- This is a very exciting news, because it enables your documents come out to a much wider audience, says the company.

The changes are a fact within two weeks.
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