Google Crawl Question

[fransome]

i've seen plenty Word files come up in results. Powerpoint files are indexed too.

[fransome]

There are 13 main file types searched by Google in addition to standard web formatted documents in HTML.

* Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)
* Adobe PostScript (ps)
* Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku)
* Lotus WordPro (lwp)
* MacWrite (mw)
* Microsoft Excel (xls)
* Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
* Microsoft Word (doc)
* Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
* Microsoft Write (wri)
* Rich Text Format (rtf)
* Shockwave Flash (swf)
* Text (ans, txt)

[fransome]

Google Facts & Fiction (http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html)

Fiction: Sites are not included in Google's index if they use ASP (or some other non-html file-type.)
Fact: At Google, we are able to index most types of pages and files with very few exceptions. File types we are able to index include: pdf, asp, jsp, hdml, shtml, xml, cfm, doc, xls, ppt, rtf, wks, lwp, wri.

[Brave Boy]

why PHP is not included?

PHP is too obvious, I suppose

[Brave Boy]

There is a firefox plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=636) that has an option to "see"/save this files as html file.
So if a browser can do that, why not an SE?
Or am I wrong somehow?

[Brave Boy]

If your search turns up a non-HTML file, such as a PDF file, Google includes the option in the listing to "View as HTML".

[Little_Dragon]

So now your doctoring quotes, eh?
I'm just not used to the new chainsaw...

I asked SEbasic for his but he's being stingy...