At my day job, I often have to track down high resolution versions of a potential client’s logo for a proposal and/or a spec design*. When Brands of the World comes up empty, I resort to searching for a PDF on the potential client’s website using this Google search:

site:clientdomain.com filetype:pdf

Try it.

I do it so much that I decided to make a quick bookmarklet. Drag the link below to your bookmarks. Then, next time you’re on a web site and think, “I wonder if they have any PDFs,” just click the bookmark.

Search Site for PDFs ← Drag to your bookmarks bar

There are plenty of other filetypes Google can search. If you want to find PowerPoint files, for example, change filetype:pdf to filetype:ppt.

*Yeah, I hate spec work, but it pays my mortgage.