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Testing Search Indexing Robots and Complex File Formats

This page is testing whether search indexing robots index will follow links and index text on pages which are not HTML or text, but native office or productivity file formats. For more tests, see the List of Robot Tests.

• Acrobat documents - very common, and sometimes picked up by local search engines. For information about the problems and issues with indexing PDF, see the SearchTools Report on searching PDFs .
  • Simple acrobat file .pdf
  • Problem file with word spacing issues
  • PDF with lots of metadata in the properties
• PostScript .ps documents
• Rich Text Format .rtf (RTF) interchange format documents
• Microsoft Word .doc documents, including text in footers and properties
• WordPerfect .wdp documents (also Mac format)
• Microsoft Excel .xls documents, including text in properties.
• Microsoft PowerPoint .ppt presentations, not exported to HTML.

Page Updated: 2007-05-11