Seraching on google is very easy, simply go to www.google.com type in the search box what you want to search and press google search button you will get the most relevent search results for your query but the problem is if you need some specific file type it is not easy to find it out. In order to find specific filetypes on google you should know which all file types google search can show in SERP (search engine result pages).
There are 13 file types which google shows in SERP (search engine result pages) in addition to standard web formatted documents in HTML and you can search them by typing query filetype:filetype name. For example if you want to search for PDF file related to shopping you can type shopping filetype:pdf and google will display results containing PDF files or go to advanced search section select the file type you want to search from the file type dropdown and press enter the search result
will display results containing that particular file type.
There are 13 file types which google shows in SERP (search engine result pages) in addition to standard web formatted documents in HTML and you can search them by typing query filetype:filetype name. For example if you want to search for PDF file related to shopping you can type shopping filetype:pdf and google will display results containing PDF files or go to advanced search section select the file type you want to search from the file type dropdown and press enter the search result
will display results containing that particular file type.
The file types that are shown in SERP are:
| File Format | Suffix | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat PDF | A publishing format commonly used for product manuals and documents of all sorts. | |
| Adobe PostScript | ps | A printing format often used for academic papers. |
| Hypertext Markup Language | html or htm | The primary language for web pages. |
| Lotus 1-2-3 | wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, or wku | A spreadsheet format. |
| Lotus WordPro | lwp | A word processing format. |
| MacWrite | mw | A word processing format. |
| Microsoft Excel | xls | A spreadsheet format. |
| Microsoft PowerPoint | ppt | A format for presentations and slides. |
| Microsoft Word | doc | A common word processing format. |
| Microsoft Works | wks, wps, or wdb | A word processing format. |
| Microsoft Write | wri | A Macintosh word processing format. |
| Rich Text Format | rtf | A format used to exchange documents between Microsoft Word and other formats. |
| Plain Text | ans or txt | Ordinary text with no special formating. |
By adding these file types to SERP (search engine result pages) google gives a better understanding of what all other file types are available on the web. Among these file types PDF files are the most popular.
When crawling the file types google converts all file types to either HTML or text.The SERP (search engine result pages) include a link to either "View as HTML" or "View as Text".
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