Explains > Why I can search google better than you

Sunday, April 8th, 2007 | Internet

Ok so using google is kind of a skill. I mean right off the nut it will give you pretty decent results to find pages, but what if you want to find files, or exploit people? Since google has indexed just about everything worth seeing, you might as well refine the way you search to get more valid results. Some people call these “google hacks” but it’s just plain knowing how to search.

intitle: You want to download files
See anybody can just type mp3 into a search engine, but I don’t want to troll through a million bullshit pages and designs to find a song. Well I don’t want to waste my time, though I normally just look for a torrent files, if I just want one song or a video or something here’s what I type: “intitle:Index of” .mp3 ben folds by typing that it searches for an actual page title that starts with Index of and then the content .mp3 and ben folds. This works because when a page title starts with Index of, it tends to be an open directory with no index file. you don’t have to type mp3 you could type .swf, .flv .avi .mpg .jpg or so many more, that way you just get a directory with free stuff.

inurl: You want to find a specific type of file structure or script
Ok, the best example of this goes to show you that you should always be sure not to use default settings with your software and scripts. So I took a big list of links that take you straight to people’s security camera’s. Some of them let you totally control the camera and what it does or does not do. Some of them use inurl and some use intitle, but this should give you the power of this for searching.

Now that you are scared out of your mind to put anything on the web, I though I would give you a cheat sheet to doing all of this. There is a lot more you can do, but these two tags are the ones I use the most…. Well perhaps also define:word (define: and then a word lists as many definitions about a word as google knows exists)..

Just want the reference? Google Cheat Sheet
Need way more info download: OReilly Google Hacks 2nd Edition