Google has a ton of different operators available to use when you’re searching. Today we are going to look at filetype.
Filetype:
Filetype is the operator which is used to define exactly what kind of file you are searching for. In the example below, I was searching for a font, Century Gothic to be exact. When you punch in just Century Gothic without a filetype operator at the end, you get a lot of results, but either the files don’t exist anymore or they cost money. But using the filetype let me search for exactly what I was looking for and for what Google has indexed.
This example shows us that we’re looking for “Century Gothic” and anything indexed that has the file extension of TTF (TrueType Font.) It provided the exact results I was expecting to get.
And that folks, this is the first entry under the Search Tips 101 column! Plenty more to come in the future.
Click here to view all of the Google search operators.
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