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jhbadger
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Dorking: the use of search engines to find very sp...
Does filetype: still work? I'm getting zero hits for example filetype:epub
choo-t
on Aug 9, 2020
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It still work but some file type never return anything, I have the same problem with epub, pretty sure it's some google's shenanigan about books piracy.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35287?hl=en
gwern
on Aug 10, 2020
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That explains why essentially no DejaVu files show up. I was shocked to test out a .djvu search and find almost nothing.
achairapart
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Maybe Google doesn’t index epub at all? I think I never saw one in search results.
choo-t
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Well, I may have become crazy but i have vivid memory using it in the past, and some websites even refer to this specific query (
https://ebookfriendly.com/google-search-tips-books/
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FrankSansC
on Aug 10, 2020
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For some file extensions yes, for others no or not anymore (eg .js)
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