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unsignedint on Sept 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google PDF Search: “not for public release”

They should have at least have set an owner password for these documents. (In practice, they are not effective preventing people to disregard limitation that you set on the document, but at least it'll exclude documents for indexing at least by Google.)

r3bl on Sept 1, 2015 [–]

I think the bare minimum would be to put them all in one directory and use robots.txt to hide them from Google.

Sure, it's weak, but at least it won't be accessible through Google.

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