Jakob Nielsen's advice in

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010610.html

is to "Never let your search engines index PDF files" as "usability suffers
when users are unceremoniously dumped into a PDF file".

This advice is a bit of a body blow as I've finally managed to get htdig to
index pdfs (this was accomplished by giving up on windows and using linux
instead).

So - as a compromise can any one suggest a way of getting htsearch to
supply the appropriate icon for non-html results returned, to warn the user
that following the hyperlink will take them to a non-html document?

Marcus Valentine


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