Advanced Google Search Tips
- 1. Examples of searching for non-HTML file types:
- For pizza recipes in PDF:
- "pizza recipes" filetype:pdf
- For information on the Illinois River in Oklahoma in Microsoft Word:
- "illinois river" oklahoma filetype:doc
- For presentations on Russian history in Flash:
- "russian history " filetype:swf
- For Power Point presentations on eye disorders:
- "eye disorders " filetype:ppt
- For Text files dealing with oil and gas drilling in Alaska:
- oil gas alaska drilling filetype:txt
- For Rich Text Format files having to do with Tahlequah (Rich Text Format files are useful for exchanging text between different word processors and other text-processing applications:
- tahlequah filetype:rtf
- For information on the economic growth of Kuwait in Excel spreadsheet format:
- "economic growth" kuwait filetype:xls
- 2. Searching for pictures. The below example will retrieve pictures of Lake Tenkiller:
- tenkiller pics
- 3. Searching for information within a specific site. The below example illustrates a search for NSU admissions information:
- admissions site:www.nsuok.edu
- 4. Using Google to find word definitions. The below example illustrates how to find definitions of the word quantum:
- define quantum
Page maintained by: Gary Cheatham
Last updated: September 29, 2011
