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Comment author: gwern 03 August 2013 02:23:59AM 10 points [-]

Question: where can I upload jailbroken PDFs that is public & Google-visible?

For a job, I compiled ~100MB of lipreading research, some of them extremely obscure & hard to find (I also have some Japanese literature PDFs in a similar situation); while I have no personal interest in the topic and do not want to host indefinitely the PDFs on gwern.net, I feel it would be a massive waste to simply delete them.

I cannot simply put them in a Dropbox public folder because they wouldn't show up in Google, and Scribd is an abomination I despise.

(crosspost from Google+)

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 13 September 2013 05:45:51PM 2 points [-]

wordpress.com has 3gb quota and pdfs are visible to google.

Comment author: gwern 13 September 2013 06:31:40PM 0 points [-]

Interesting. I am giving it a try at http://gwern0.wordpress.com/ . We'll see in a month if any of the PDFs show up in Google.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 14 September 2013 09:37:10PM 1 point [-]

Where are the links to the documents?

Comment author: gwern 14 September 2013 10:22:36PM 0 points [-]

I don't know. I uploaded the PDFs and 'attached' them to a post. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do beyond that.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 14 September 2013 11:30:08PM *  1 point [-]

How to use wordpress to upload and publicize files:

Files show up at gwern0.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/original_name.
There's also an "attachment page" at gwern0.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=##, but only after you publish the associated post, while the file is immediately world readable after upload, just secret.

To get wordpress to populate the post with links:

  1. Edit post
  2. "add media"
  3. (upload files via "upload files" pane)
  4. choose "media files" pane, if necessary
  5. select all files
  6. click "insert into post" at bottom.
Comment author: gwern 15 September 2013 06:24:43PM 0 points [-]

I see, thanks. It looks like that works - I see PDF links in both posts now.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 15 September 2013 10:06:32PM 1 point [-]

OK, now I can find the links, but can google? It's not supposed to follow links from LW. I think WP advertises new accounts somewhere, but I don't think it's worth much. I suggest you link to it from gwern.net and/or google plus. Also that you link to your google drive public folder.

(I predict that if you don't link to the WP page, google will eventually find it and index it, but not index the pdfs. So if someone searches for the title of the article, google will produce the hit, but google scholar won't have it. And "eventually" might be more than month.)

Comment author: gwern 13 October 2013 10:25:35PM 0 points [-]

So, I just opened up the WP blog and did Scholar searches for 3 or 4 of the lipreading PDFs. Not a single hit.

Comment author: gwern 15 September 2013 10:16:30PM 0 points [-]

We'll see in a month.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 14 September 2013 10:38:00PM 0 points [-]

Let me get back to you about wordpress, but I wonder if this explains why google drive didn't work for you, when it did work for WB? Google could find everything on the google drive, unlike wp, but maybe they only look via links.