Search for PDFs only

Many formal documents are stored on the Web in PDF format. You can limit your searches for these by putting "filetype:pdf" in your Google search string.

For example,
filetype:pdf american civil war
filetype:pdf president clinton speech

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Added: 23rd Jun 2007

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Author: Neil

Tags: google research search engines

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User: ... (Unregistered user)	Tip: Search for PDFs only
Posted: 2007-07-05 18:48:58

usefull

User: DGosling (Unregistered user)	Tip: Search for PDFs only
Posted: 2007-11-09 16:35:07

I knew this was possible, but wasn't to sure how to do it. It's coming in handy with my dissertation. Thankyou

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