If Adobe Reader is not the only software for reading PDF documents, it remains the best known and most used ... So it will undoubtedly be the first affected by the launch of the new tool from Google that allows you to read PDF files without having to install third party software. A tool not so new, even if Google has officially notified yesterday. Since July, the ability to directly read the PDF has started to be introduced by Google.

Thus, a link "Show" is offered to users when a PDF document is pointed to by the results of the search engine. Clicking it opens a window directly into the browser and displays the PDF document with a section to browse page by page. Two display modes are available, and a zoom function, the minimum required proving to be quite sufficient for the vast majority of users.

Google ubiquitous

Of course, Adobe Reader (or another PDF reader) will always need to read the files offline and all PDF documents available on its hard drive. But knowing that it operates in a world increasingly connected computing, there is little doubt that Adobe feels threatened somewhere. As for Google, the giant only confirms its strategy of ubiquity.