Searching on Google can be a magical experience once you find out how to make your search queries efficient. By making efficient I mean using some tricks or the cheat sheet provided by Google itself to quickly find what you actually require.
1. Find the Face Behind the Result
- Examples (notice the differences in each URL):
2. Google + Social Media Sites = Quality Free Stuff
- Examples:
3. Find Free Anonymous Web Proxies
- Examples:
4. Google for Music, Videos, and Ebooks
- Examples:
- Find Music: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Counting Crows”
- Find Videos: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(mpg|wmv) “chapelle”
- Find Ebooks: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(pdf|doc) “george orwell 1984″
- More info.
5. Browse Open Webcams Worldwide
- Examples:
- Axis Webcams: inurl:/view.shtml or inurl:view/index.shtml
- Cannon Webcams: sample/LvAppl/
- MOBOTIX Webcams: control/userimage.html
- FlexWatch Webcams: /app/idxas.html
- JVC Webcams: intitle: intitle:”V.Networks [Motion Picture(Java)]”
- More info. - More info.
6. Judge a Site by its Image
7. Results Based on Third-Party Opinion
- Examples (notice the added variety between search results):
- allinanchor:”google hacks” vs. basic search for Google hacks
- allinanchor:”wordpress exploits” vs. basic search for Wordpress exploits
- More info.
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