Search by Title of a Document

Searching by document type is a great way to ensure that you are finding information you need in the format you want. The filetype: filter is great for finding PDFs, DOCs, or XLSs.

Yet sometimes, using the filetype filter shows results where the keywords are in the body of the document and not closely correlated to what you are really looking for. To ensure your document is related to your keywords, use the Keyword Location filter.

Keyword Location

1. Type allintitle: followed by your keywords, followed by filetype: and your selected file type.

2. For example, [allintitle:social media trends filetype:pdf]

Use the allintitle: when you only want results with every keyword in the title. Type intitle: followed by the keywords and Google will look for results that have most of the words in the title. If you searched using the allintitle: filter and Google responded with "did not match any documents," search again with intitle:.