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Google Secret: filetype:pdfRate This Post:
Next time you’re surfing Google, try this: Search for your keyword or keyphrase and then add “filetype:pdf“.
Essentially, it shows you all results that are in a PDF file type. Reason why this rocks: Many awesome whitepapers are in PDF form only and viewing a PDF file in HTML extrapolation doesn’t always look right. Examples:
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Hi Chris! Thank you for the tip! Hi Lance! You are lucky because you have time to read a lot, besides writing a lot! Comment provided April 6, 2008 at 3:40 pm
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Christina, Indeed, my early retirement (ha, ha, wink, wink) has served me well in freeing up my time to enjoy the finer things in life. Sincerely, Lance Comment provided April 6, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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There’s a similar trick that’s really great for Mac OSX Leopard that lets you search only a specific file type: Comment provided April 7, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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Wow, thank you for the search engine trick, I had not known that, it will indeed come in handy for my research. One thing, I have done is to go to a website and use the Google search feature on my Google Tool Bar to search the site. Then, I type in .pdf and it brings up all the .pdf files, this way I can search out the research papers on the site, and skip the sales talk. It helps a lot.
Another thing, I have done is list the Google Scholar on my Google Tool bar, so I can go there and type in a key word and pull up research reports, and amazingly enough, I generally find the skinny or real deal on just about any subject or topic.