[Tarakan]

A topic for interesting google search tips.

to search for an mp3 or any specific file, use

intitle:index.of (mp3|wav|flac|any_filetype) filenamename -html -htm -php

This way google searches for pages without index.html.

Handy if you're looking for a single mp3.
Also works with any file types instead of mp3:
(mp3|avi|txt|mp4|mpg|jpg)

"-html -htm -php" excludes those filetypes form the search.

I found this type of search really useful.
Feel free to add more tips and ideas.

[Alb]

I use a search engine that someone named Jimmy made which is similar to this.

http://www.jimmyr.com/mp3_search.php

[ScHAmPi]

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site:

If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. For instance, [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com. [help site:com] will find pages about help within .com urls. Note there can be no space between the "site:" and the domain.

allintitle:

If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title.

intitle:

If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the "intitle:" and the following word.

Putting [intitle:] in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting [allintitle:] at the front of your query: [intitle:google intitle:search] is the same as [allintitle: google search].


allinurl:

If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the url.

Note that [allinurl:] works on words, not url components. In particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, [allinurl: foo/bar] will restrict the results to page with the words "foo" and "bar" in the url, but won't require that they be separated by a slash within that url, that they be adjacent, or that they be in that particular word order. There is currently no way to enforce these constraints.

inurl:

If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their url, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the "inurl:" and the following word.

Putting "inurl:" in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting "allinurl:" at the front of your query: [inurl:google inurl:search] is the same as [allinurl: google search].

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[DudeNIX]

Don't forget about wildcards(*) and the plain old quotation marks.

e.g

http://rapidshare.com/files/* rzr-wlca

[ScHAmPi]

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Advanced Search Tips: Disappearing results

If you click on the next page of results and the rest of the results pages disappear, this is called collapsing. When we realize that some of the results for your query are duplicates, we collapse the duplicates so that you can find the specific result you're looking for more easily. Collapsing the duplicates makes the estimated number of results, as well as the overall number of results pages, appear to decrease from the total initially displayed.

To expand your results, just navigate to the last search results page. At the bottom of the page, click on the link that reads, "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the [number] already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."

I've seen this happen and I always thought it was a bug... just found out what the real reason was .

[hedgey]

Alb, on Jan 24 2009, 02:38 AM, said:

I use a search engine that someone named Jimmy made which is similar to this.

http://www.jimmyr.com/mp3_search.php

Handy Link ty...

[Vantec]

Alb, on Jan 24 2009, 01:38 PM, said:

I use a search engine that someone named Jimmy made which is similar to this.

http://www.jimmyr.com/mp3_search.php

yeh his the one who found this out. check out his youtube tutorials, awesome.

[Acendancy]

Thnx , this helps alot

[Vip3r^]

Wow great tips thanks

[Tarakan]

ScHAmPi, on Jan 24 2009, 03:25 PM, said:

Source

Pretty much sums up the topic

[djdamon]

thanks

[Alb]

Vantec, on Jan 25 2009, 01:04 AM, said:

Alb, on Jan 24 2009, 01:38 PM, said:

I use a search engine that someone named Jimmy made which is similar to this.

http://www.jimmyr.com/mp3_search.php

yeh his the one who found this out. check out his youtube tutorials, awesome.

Youtube is where I first found this guy. Not active at all lately for some reason.

[RedGrinGo]

Grtacias Amigo!