Scribd's phenomenal traffic growth seems to indicate that someone finds it useful, even if you or I don't.
Typical Scribd experience: Search for a document via Google. Google result links to Scribd site. Go to Scribd. Realize the Scribd doesn't actually have that document despite exactly matching title. Get annoyed.
Yes. Text, and images, wrapped up and 'streamed' to a flash player. Call me crazy, but I think that's bad for the web. Those text files and images should be free to roam. Not caged up in a horrible flash player. Add to that their aggressive google SEO, and it's a bad bad situation.
experts-exchange.com has 1.5m entries in google.com whilst scribd.com has 16m !!!
If I do look at the page in desperation, the phrase I searched for in google, using double quotes, is never actually in the document. I don't see that very often with any other sites and this is also highly annoying. I suppose it is effective for their page views and adsense. Does google have a way to down-vote results?
It might be great for some people, but I'm not one of them.
Yes - click the X to the right of the link.
