Find videos, mp3s, images hidden to others. Secrets professionals use to find what they they need.
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Part 1
The techniques I am about to share with you have been known to industry insiders for years. As a matter of fact, search engines have been built right from the beginning to handle such queries. However, the layperson knows little about them. I titled my article and videos “Google Search Secrets”, but the truth is that these techniques will work with nearly all search engines. The reason I am recommending Google for finding stuff is because they are better at it than their competitors. Even when they launched in the late ’90s, they were already better then the rest; and professionals quickly made it their favorite. They are not only better at displaying more relevant results even to simple queries, but they have well over 100,000 servers world wide, therefore they are aware more pages and react to changes much quicker than all the rest. Their lead is several years, and in this industry, that might as well be 50. So, if you need to find something, Google it.
But, even a good search engine needs a little help every now and then. Say, you are trying to find videos and/or pictures of car crashes. Why not? Normally, this what everybody types in:
car crashes
Now, this may work all right,but it has a drawback. You just told the search engine that it was okay to display pages with only ‘car’ or ‘crash’ in them. You may also get pages that have to do with ‘car parts’ and/or ‘plane crashes.’ To make sure that the results served will have both the word ‘car’ and ‘crashes’ in them, all you have to do is put a ‘+’ (plus) sign in front of the words:
+car +crashes
It’s easy to get even more accurate results. If you only want pages where the two words appear together, you need to type in the search term with quotation marks around it:
“car crashes”
Next, let’s say, your needs are a little more specific. You want to find Porsches in the process of getting banged up. So, being the good student that you are, you put some the techniques to work:
“car crashes” porsche
This will probably get you some good results, but there is a problem. This will still allow the search engine to display results with either ‘car crashes’ or ‘Porsche’ in them. To eliminate that, you can combine techniques:
+”car crashes” +porsche
Note that I am not capitalizing any of the words, proper nouns or not. Search engine queries are not case sensitive, in other words the they don’t care if you type in all caps or if you choose to go with small case characters.
Feel like excluding certain search terms? All you gotta do is to put a ‘-’ (minus) sign before the expression:
-”abc news” +”car crashes” +porsche
By the way, the order in which you place the search terms also doesn’t matter. You could have just as well typed in:
+porsche -”abc news” +”car crashes”
Next, say, you found a really good site, and you want to search that site and that site only, but it doesn’t have a search box, or it’s built in-search engine is not that great. This is what you type into Google:
site:wreckedexotics.com +porsche -audi
This will yield you only pages from wreckedexotics.com with the ‘Porsche’ in them but not ‘Audi.’
Another trick is to search the URL of web pages. URLs are the string of characters you see in the address bar of your browser. An example would be: http://wreckedexotics.com/cars/sports-cars/wrecked-porsches.htm. The benefit of searching the URL is that if it contains the very thing you are trying to find, it is more likely to be relevant.
inurl:porsche
This will only return results with the word ‘porsche’ in the URL.
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Part 2
There are lot of mp3s, all kinds of video files and images that are not on any video sharing site, p2p network or torrent site, but are freely downloadable directly to your computer if you know how to find them. They are located in the so-called “open directories.” Open Directories are basically directories that are located on web servers and access to them has not been restricted for some reason. When you find one, you will be able to recognize it right away, because it will only have a list of files, let that be .html .mpg .mp3 - you name it, and “Index of” at the top. You can click directly on any of the files, and if they are a media file, they will open in your default media player. Be careful though, there may be some viruses out there. You can also right click on them, and using “Save Target As” you can save them on your hard drive.
For finding video files, copy and paste this line into Google:
-inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:asp intitle:”index of” +(wmv|mpg|avi) +starwars
Please note that you will have to replace ’starwars’ with whatever you are looking for. (Dah!)
To find mp3s, you need to change the file types (wmv|mpg|avi) to (mp3):
-inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:asp intitle:”index of” +(mp3) +starwars
Google Search Hacks Part 2 - The best video clips are right here
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