File Types Supported by Google

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File Types Indexed by Google

Google can index content from various types of text-based files and some encoded document formats. The most common file types indexed by Google include:

  • Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
  • Adobe PostScript (.ps)
  • Comma-Separated Values (.csv)
  • Electronic Publication (.epub)
  • Google Earth files (.kml, .kmz)
  • GPS eXchange Format (.gpx) Hancom Hanword (.hwp)
  • HTML (.htm, .html, and other related extensions)
  • Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
  • Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx)
  • Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
  • OpenOffice Presentation (.odp)
  • OpenOffice Spreadsheet (.ods)
  • OpenOffice Text Document (.odt)
  • Rich Text Format (.rtf)
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)
  • TeX/LaTeX (.tex)
  • Plain Text (.txt, .text, and similar extensions) including source code files from popular programming languages:
    Basic source code (.bas)
    C/C++ source code (.c, .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .h, .hpp)
    C# source code (.cs)
    Java source code (.java)
    Perl source code (.pl)
    Python source code (.py)
  • Wireless Markup Language (.wml, .wap)
  • XML (.xml)

Media File Formats Supported by Google

Google also supports various image and video file formats:

Image Formats:

BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, SVG, AVIF

Video Formats:

3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DivX, M2V, M3U, M3U8, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGV, QVT, RAM, RM, VOB, WebM, WMV, XAP

Search by File Type

You can use the “filetype:” operator in your search to restrict 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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