This morning I was looking for the song we’re putting for the Porto Diao commercial that will air at the BirriaFest and consequently YouTube in the next few days and I thought that a good song for it would be “Night Fever” by the Bee Gees. I’ll tell you how that came to be in my next post. Anyway, over here I’m running on Linux with no SuDo privileges (read: I got a shitty user) so I can’t just load my favorite Peer-2-Peer download program to search for the song. So, what did I have to do? Simple: resort to my good friend Google. These are like a magician’s tricks so take notice… I will now teach you how to search for MP3’s, game and program ISOs as well as serials for said games and programs, browse FTP servers and, just for the hell of it, look up the meaning to whatever word you want. I found these by accident on a blog late last year and they’ve helped me make my Linux days that much more bearable, and it’s a good alternative (though I use it as a last resort since in all cases it requires a lot of searching through the links) to whatever your main method of acquiring files is. Anyway, have fun and I hope this helps you as much as it’s helped me. Head to Google.com and then apply these simple steps. First off…

1. MP3s: in the search box, type ?intitle:index.of? mp3 “NAME-OF-FILE“. For example, in order to find my Bee Gees son I had to type ?intitle:index.of? mp3 beegees. What that’s gonna do is that it’ll look up all dumps and index folders across the Internet where people are stashing their MP3s, thinking that people like you or me won’t ever be able to find them. Oh, how wrong they are! You’ll have to browse a little since some sites aren’t working anymore and others ask for passwords, but I was able to find the song I wanted after looking through 4 pages of search results within 5 minutes.
2. Programs/Games and Serials: This one’s even easier and it follows the same principle of searching of MP3s, so take note of it. The code is inurl:PROGRAM filetype:iso. in the “program” field just add the program or company or whatever distinction you can put so that you can find the right file. More than one word in that field seems to make the search screwy so just stick to the most recognizable feature of the program name you can find.
3. Definitions: This one’s rather simple. When you type in define:WORD where “word” is whatever you need a definition to, Google will automatically find all of the dictionaries ever known to exist in the Internet and will therefore prvide you with the most comprehensive response.
4. FTP: O.K, there’s no chance in hell I was gonna be able to remember that code so I looked around on the interwebs and found this guy who has these definitions explained in Spanish so if you’re a little lost with this then check out his site. Anyway, type any of these strings, simply changing the term after “parent directory” to search whatever it is you’re looking for:”parent directory ” /appz/ -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums“parent directory ” DVDRip -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums”parent directory ” Xvid -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums”parent directory ” Gamez -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

   “parent directory ” MP3 -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

   “parent directory ” Name of artist or album -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

   Remember to change the term after “parent directory” (MP3, Xvid, Artis or album, etc) so it’s more of a targeted search.

For serials it’s much easier, thought the trial-and-error process can prove to be excruciating at times. Anyway, the code for looking for serials to your favorite program and games, in case you misplaced them or whatever, is as follows: PRODUCT NAME 94FBR, where “product name” is the program you need the serial for. I used to know what that 94-gibberish meant fuck quite frankly I forgot. It has to deal with Microsoft operating systems or something but I’m not quite clear on the matter. With that said, I don’t know how this method will fare with MAC OS systems or Linux, even.

Well, those are the most important search strings you should know in order to find stuff on the Internet using Google. Mind you that this stuff is not easy like Kazaa or torrents and it will require some patience. Still, I believe it’s good knowledge to have, don’t you think?

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