Today i’ll like to share a hack google for more effective and precise search result. Its an old trick but not many are aware of this. Well as we know, we get all kinds of stuff using Google’s search engine, but why waste time when you know exactly what you want.
For eg. Music is something we all want to download for free. If you properly query google, you can find open indexes of music files easily. use these open indexes to get your free music. just type in the following command into the google text box.
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “hips don’t lie” mp3
Well, what does this mean??? To simplify… The -inurl htm and -inurl html is trying to get rid of regular webpages and show only index pages. Looking for “index of” in the title is doing the same. The mp3 tag on the end tells google to look for mp3s in these open directories. You can change this to wma, ogg or whatever you want.
You can add additional search criteria to focus your search more.
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3 “shakira”
This command will find open directories with mp3 files with shakira. You can change to whaever you want.
Similarly to search for an ebook just type
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(”/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip)
By using the ( | ) sign, we tell google to look for that OR this .i.e look for ebook or book directories. After that we have listed several common ebook formats (zip, pdf, chf).
This way we can use certain command to make google focus on the searches more to our meet our specifiacations. More such tricks will be posted soon. So keep reading….
