Tell HN: Google search no longer supports filetype
Bummer, I used it a lot. The "view cached" option seems to be missing as well.
Duck Duck Go still support filetype.
Duck Duck Go still support filetype.
They keep making changes that just worsen the user experience:
1. Messing with the "toolbar" so now it changes with every search
2. Removing the view cache
3. Removing pagination
4. AI things
and so on.
(#1 and #3 are the ones that piss me off the most)
Wow, they're still trying to depower their search engine. However, a quick look, filetype still works, but sadly for that option to work with myself, it requires the verbatim option selected ... which in my experience in various attempts the last handful of years, removes other options such as time from the query. I don't recall if I've tried to manually modify the entry in the navigation bar to sort the verbatim / time issue, but I'm not the sort of person to polish or paint a turd unless it had something of value ... google's results have not been stand out since IMO 2015 ish.
DDG works for the moment, but they too are starting to get a little silly, last few weeks (just personal stuff these days regarding searches) near most have required the individual words in quotes to work as it once did.
[0] https://twitter.com/rustybrick/status/1752087793642185003
[strike]I'm unsure how old that twitter comment is, I don't twitter, or social media in general. [/strike] [Edit. OK went for a quick hunt, end of January - start of this month it was reported the cache links were removed, though the cache still exists ... if Google decided to keep a cache of the result.]