This is more than a 'sweet' technology. It is a big step forward for the web, because it means that all the documents uploaded to Scribd are now fully indexable!
They're now all accessible by crawlers, and will start showing up in search engine results. I believe the vision they craft (all the world's documents living online as part of the fabric of the web) is a very powerful one.
It's a big step forward only in comparison to what Scribd did before. The Web has always been perfectly capable of showing indexable documents, even PDF documents.
They're now all accessible by crawlers, and will start showing up in search engine results. I believe the vision they craft (all the world's documents living online as part of the fabric of the web) is a very powerful one.