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July 11, 2005

FileType Searching

Over the past few months, I have noticed a recent change in my search behavior. Instead of searching for Collaborative Computing as a simple text based search, I have been adding the FileType to the text field (Collaborative Computing filetype:pdf). This returns only those Adobe PDF documents that are related to collaborative computing in the result list. My thinking is that content that is worthy of conversions to PDF has a higher probability of being valid content. This is also true for Power Point (filetype:ppt); people willing to place their content in front of others as a presentation will be more valid than content in standard of html. While not scientific, my experience has changed my behavior.

FileType search is available from google.

Posted by Todd at July 11, 2005 7:22 PM