Google Search Converts OpenDocument Formats

Google search has support for a number of formats, like PDF and some Microsoft Office documents, letting you view the documents converted into HTML instead of launching a seperate program (especially useful if you don’t or can’t have that program on your computer). Now, Google has added support for the OpenDocument format, most prominently used by OpenOffice, as well as Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets, Star Office, and KOffice.
Ionut Alex has screenshots of the implementation, and a chart showing that, at current, Microsoft Office documents on Google outnumber OpenOffice documents by 477 to 1, or 71,700,000 Office docs to 150,200 OpenOffice docs.
Interestingly, Microsoft’s new Office 2007 file formats are barely represented in Google, with 96 Word docs, 27 Excel spreadsheets, and 18 Powerpoint presentations. The software is only three months old, but Google may be a good way to track adoption of the new applications.

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Original post by Nathan Weinberg