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File types indexable by GoogleGoogle can index the content of most text-based files and certain encoded document formats. The most common file types we index include:
Google can also index the following media formats:
You can use the filetype:
operator in Google Search to limit results to a specific file type or file extension. For example, filetype:rtf galway
will search for RTF files and URLs ending in .rtf
whose content contains the term "galway".
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Last updated 2025-02-04 UTC.
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