Search in a particular language
You can specify the language of the keyword or keyword phrase. You can also
change your preferences to tell Google to always search for a particular lan-
guage or multiple languages. Click the Preferences link on the Google home
page.
Advanced Search page: Type your search term into one of the Find Results
boxes and then select a language from the Language drop-down list box.
Toolbar/home page: You have to use the Advanced Search page to do this
search.
Specify and ignore file formats
You can tell Google to search only for a particular file format or to ignore a
file format. Google can search a variety of file types, such as Adobe Acrobat,
PostScript, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Rich
Text Format files.
Advanced Search page: Type your search term into one of the Find Results
boxes, and then select either Only (if you want to restrict the search to a
particular file type) or Don’t (if you want to ignore a file type) from the File
Format drop-down list box. Then pick the file format from the drop-down
list to the right.
Toolbar/home page: Precede the file type — the extension — with file
type:. Do not include a space between filetype: and the file extension.
Syntax example: rodent racing filetype:pdf finds the words rodent
and racing in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files. rodent racing -filetype:
pdf tells Google to search all file types but PDF. rodent -filetype:ppt -
filetype:pdf tells Google to search all types with the exception of PPT
and PDF files.
Note that you can tell Google to ignore multiple file types, but you can’t tell it
to restrict searches to multiple file types.
Look for recent changes
Google lets you search for pages that have been added or updated during a
specific time period. (Note that this doesn’t show you documents created
during a specific period.)
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Bonus Chapter: Search Techniques You Should Know
