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Search for a Specific File Format

Tuesday January 31, 2006
Learn how to restrict your search to a specific file format; for example, you can search for only Power Point files, only XML files, only Excel files, etc.
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January 31, 2006 at 9:00 am
(1) Derek Franklin says:

Check out http://www.whonu.com.

It has a feature that allows you to search file types (on both Google and Yahoo), and you don’t have to remember the syntax!

Here’s an example:

http://www.whonu.com/file_results.php?q=goal%20setting

Enjoy!

Derek

March 21, 2009 at 12:22 pm
(2) Stardust-Poptart says:

Good post, admin.

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