Few people actually understand the importance of knowing how to search online. Believe it or not, there are literally dozens of techniques about searching the internet. Taking some time to learn some of Google’s search directives can really prove to be a nice time investment.
File Search
Suppose that we need to locate a pdf file about Retail. A natural search would be something like:
1 Retail filetype:pdf
At the same search term, if you change filetype:pdf to -filetype:pdf, you would instruct the search engine to locate anything related to Retail that is NOT a pdf file. In the same manner, you can use something like:
1 allinurl: Retail
This instructs google to search for the term “Retail” inside URLS and only return those that contain these words. Another useful one is the site directive that specifies the domain name that we want to search for and it only returns results under that domain we specify.
Book Search
If you think that you can always find a book online if you just type its name, you may be disappointed to see that most times you will be getting spam websites, ads or anything that is not actually related to what you seek. Alas, using the right search engine term for google can really make the difference.
1 -inurl:html -inurl:html intitle:"index of" + ("/ebooks"|"/book") + (chm|pdf|zip) + "networks"
What it does is actually very easy. First, we specify that we want google to return to us webpages that contain html or htm on their urls. Moreover, it requires that the title of the page is “index of”. This actually looks for directory listings that people tend to use when uploading lots of ebooks and software. Then, it also looks for chm,pdf or zip files and websites having “/ebooks” or “/book” as part of their name, finally also specifying that the actual search term is networks. This returns a nice result set of books about networks.
Music Search
This is the part that people seem to be having some problem finding stuff for. Well, you can certainly just use a simple rapidshare search engine in order to locate lots of music. However, there is actually a pretty powerful search engine term that can help you locate songs and even complete collections of music.
1 mp3 "index of" michael jackson
What this actually does is locate search listings that refer to michael jackson mp3 songs and as you can guess you can find thousands of them. Notice that “index of” is specified inside brackets, meaning that the searching engine should find this EXACT term as is (while Michael Jackson is a vague search term and stuff like Jackson alone can be found). The search engine results you will get from that can easily gather you Michael Jackson’s full discography (including not published songs).
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