Google Query.

[Bodhi]

When in Google you type in, “search topic inurl:.pdf” then when the Results show up you click on View as HTML the .pdf is converted by Google into an .html web document.

Ok my question is this, are those conversions from pdf to html done at the time you click on the View as HTML or are they done by Google automatically. My reasons for asking this is, are these pdf conversions spidered by Google at all?

Is the PDF that is indexed seen as a website page if it is part of the content of the site it is on?

Cheers

Bodhi

[adore]

I don't know how it is solved in Google but I imagine that docs are converted while indexing - which should lower their size and gives an ability of faster searching and determining SERPs.
PDF is always indexed as an individual document - not as a part of page which links to it.

[Bodhi]

And Spidering???