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Graham Perrin

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Diigo Meta Diigolet 4.0b5 HTML web preview view Google Docs privacy puzzle

started by Graham Perrin on 29 May 10
  • Graham Perrin
     
    Whilst a Diigo Meta view of a Google view may present an indexed, searchable text version of the file, the Diigo annotated view using Diigolet 4.0b5 may present only an imaged version of the text.

    Environment

    Safari in Mac OS X.

    Example

    http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fviewer%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwiki.cetis.ac.uk%252Fimages%252F5%252F59%252FFuture_of_standards.doc?tab=comment&uname=grahamperrin

    http://diigo.com/0b5r8

    Guesses

    It takes some time for Google to perform OCR on the image.

    The Diigo cached copy used by Diigolet 4.0b5 on its own may differ from the Diigo cached copy used by Diigo 4.0b5 within Diigo Meta.

    In the example above:

    * Diigo Meta with Diigolet uses an older cached copy

    * Diigolet alone uses a more recent cached copy.

    Google Docs: privacy

    http://docs.google.com/view?docid=0AVG6-Ym42bEiZGN4YzNnN2RfOGZrenI0Z2Nw remains available when I log in to Google, after I deleted the editable copy from Google Docs.

    Postscript (edit): what I see when logged in to Google is comparable to http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/5/59/Future_of_standards.doc (a publicly available HTML version of a publicly available file). I wonder what would happen with a Google cached copy of a once-shared Google version of a file that was never publicly available …
  • Graham Perrin
     
    On closer inspection, it seems that http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.cetis.ac.uk%2Fimages%2F5%2F59%2FFuture_of_standards.doc allows text to be selected, but not copied, only whilst Diigolet is not loaded. After I load Diigolet, selection becomes impossible.

    I sometimes but not always find that http://docs.google.com/view?docid=0AVG6-Ym42bEiZGN4YzNnN2RfOGZrenI0Z2Nw is available without logging in to Google. Does anyone else find that document visible?

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