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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @09:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @09:29PM (#563580)

    I don't remember that capability being that broadly applied.
    I remember there being (and still being) a list of file extensions that were/are supported.

    I found this to be especially useful as a Boolean NOT, in particular -filetype:pdf.[1]
    The thing about that is that sometimes a file that is a PDF doesn't have an extension of .pdf (though the 1st thing on Google's title line for the item notes that it is a PDF) and that mechanism won't work.
    It's like the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing at Google.

    I have found that it's just as effective (and takes less typing) to do a -inurl:pdf.

    [1] Add DOC, DOCX, and PPT for stuff that people upload which I almost never find useful.

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