August 17, 2003: Three days after adding PDFs to Gigablast, Matt Wells announces the addition of PostScript (.ps) , PowerPoint (.ppt), Excel (.xls), and Microsoft Word (.doc) files. Search syntax is similar to the PDFs, using type: as in
type:pdf for Adobe Acrobat PDFs
type:doc for Microsoft Word documents
type:ppt for PowerPoint presentations
type:xls for Excel spreadsheets
type:ps for PostScript files
type:text for ASCII text files
type:html for HTML Web pages

These all seem to work, except for the PowerPoint one. I could not find any results for that search, but I expect that will be fixed soon. All of these file types also have [cached] copies, which are HTML or ASCII versions of the formatted files. This is a very useful addition. None of these file types or commands are listed on either the advanced search page or the help page.

I've updated my Gigablast review as well as expanded my Search Engines by Search Feature page to include a section on File Types.

Subject(s): Gigablast