An unpleasant but familiar situation for many people – you need to download a certain PDF-book on the Internet, but a search engine produces only sites with a huge number of ads and lots of fake “download” buttons.

Knowing the “filetype:” command used by Google, it is possible to avoid wasting time browsing useless sites and immediately receive direct links to files in the desired format. To do this, just type “filetype:” into the search box, followed by a colon, then type in the file type and the keywords.

For example, if you type in “filetype:pdf War and Peace,” it will search for PDF files using the keywords “War and Peace. In this way, Google processes web pages and files in virtually any format. You can see the most popular ones in the Google help center