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Google hack to instantly search for files!

Did you like the information on the Google Hacks?

Really appreciate that the information was useful. Here is a link to more of the Google Tag-words- http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html

You might find querying Google somewhere closer than India to be a little faster.



Change "www.google.co.in" in:


http:// www.google.co.in /search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22index.of%22
+%28mp3%29+%s+-html+-htm+-php+-jsp&btnG=Google+Search&meta=


to "www.google.com" as in:


http:// www.google.com /search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22index.of%22
+%28mp3%29+%s+-html+-htm+-php+-jsp&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Great observation raisch.

But now I see you're in Indonesia.

And that's where I am

useful, nice hack!

yeah - it is very old and i have extensively used it like 2 years ago! I cant believe these things are hitting the headlines now!!! We are geeks, and we are supposed to know all these things as soon as they surface. Anyway, you can goto johnny.ihackstuff.com to get more out of it including seeing VPN passwords, error messages that give way too much info etc.

I had not heard of the firefox bookmark approach before, pretty cool.

Another easy way, without remembering the code behind the search is to goto:
www.g2p.org

This site incorporates all the specific google hacks, making it very easy to search for the files you need without remembering all the code behind it. This is still good information to know though. This just adds speed to the task

Thanks

Indeed!

It actually doesn't work very well at all.

I tried this a couple weeks ago and 99% of the hits were actually links to pages offering songs for sale.

I guess the 'spammers' have found out how to defeat this already.

... I tried it for several pdfs and it worked fine. You may not get the intended links on one click but it reduces the time to mine data immensely.

Well the gent looking for FREE downloads should have gone to Bit Torrent if that was his prime qualifier. Or is there a meta search tag for that also? Otherwise do what I do, buy the music.

Thanks for the link to the general Google guide, and good example.