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.”





