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What Google does not get about ODF

Google have misunderstood a couple of things… For example they are referring to documents with a .odt (OpenDocument Text) extension as File Format: Microsoft Word and some times even File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat or File Format: Unrecognized!

Dear Google, first of all: OpenDocument is not even supported by either Microsoft Word nor any Adobe applications yet! You should by now been able to read this XML based, text document format. Honestly!

Just do document search for filetype:odf Document and you will see that the company that joined the OpenDocument group nine months ago, has not done much to implement support for the format in it's flagship product; Google Search!

One could expect that Google would support this as they recently acquired Writely, the online word processor, and re-branded the services Google Docs. Writely supports exporting to OpenDocument Text format, and if I remember it correctly, they store documents locally on their servers in that format.

Google is also said to have given three full time developers to the OpenOffice.org word processing suite project. Which is the front-most promoter and user of the OpenDocument format. That Google has not been able to properly index and recognize these documents is just plain odd.

Update: Note that personalised, and localised search may affect the results you see for the searches above.

Copyright © 2007 Daniel Aleksandersen 2007-03-29 at 04:03

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