New Google Search Features

Google now has an advanced image search page. It gives options to limit searches by file type (gif or jpeg), color (black and white, grayscale or full color), or to a specific domain. In its Web database, Google has added more file types beyond PDFs. It now indexes the following file types and searches can be limited by using filetype: followed by a file type extension as in filetype:ps:

• PostScript (ps)
• Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku)
• Lotus WordPro (lwp)
• MacWrite (mw)
• Microsoft Excel (xls)
• Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
• Microsoft Word (doc)
• Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
• Microsoft Write (wri)
• Rich Text Format (rtf)
• Text (ans, txt)

In addition, regular Google increased their language limits to 27 with the addition of Arabic and Turkish.