Search for specific file types:
There are various kinds of files available over the net. Searching for a specific file type isn’t really easy. But using this tip you can easily search for a specific file type.
For instance if you want to search for a guide, let’s say a ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career’ in ppt format. You can make use of the “filetype:” function. So in order to search for the PPT version of the guide you can enter in search bar ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career filetype:ppt’
Weather Updates:
You can easily know the weather condition of a specific place. In order to find out, all you need to do is just enter the place name followed by “weather”. For ex: “london weather”
Compare currencies:
Google’s search has an inbuilt currency converter. It allows you to perform any currency conversion. All you need to do is just enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and hit “Enter” or click the Google Search button. For instance: “1 USD in INR”
Google Convertor:
Using this feature you can convert units like millimeter into inches, kilometers into miles, liters into ml, etc. You can do so by typing ‘25km in miles’ for converting km in to miles, ‘50litres in ml’ for converting litres into ml, and so on.
Google calculator:
Google search can be used as a calculator. It can calculate anything from the simplest math to the most complex equation. All you need to do is just enter the math in the search box and hit enter. You can use the following functions:
+ : add
- :subtract
* :multiply
/ :divide
^ :to the power of
sqrt : square root of a number
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Google secret search tips
Search for Ebooks
+( ?index of ?) +( ?/ebooks ?| ?/book ?) +(chm|pdf|zip|rar) +apache is the query when searched in google is which gives out an index of ebook servers based on Apache and an Index of Files.
allinurl: +(rar|chm|zip|pdf|tgz|lit) TheTitle is the query to be searched for where TheTitle is to be replaced with the book you want to find. Say if you want to find for Google Hacks, replace TheTitle with “Google Hacks” . The quotes are suggested only if you are sure of the name of the book. Searching for “The DaVinci Code ? will give you poorer results since the book name is “The Da Vinci Code ?
Search for Warez in Google
“parent directory ” Xvid -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” MP3 -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” applications -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” Gamez -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” DVDRip -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
Replace the bold part with your query and search for it in Google
Say if you want to search for Limewire simply replace the applications with Limewire and search for it on Google
Say if you want to find a song by Guns N’ Roses November Rain, replace the mp3 part with November Rain or if you want to find songs by Guns n’ Roses, replace the mp3 part with Guns N’ Roses and voila! You get a string of results related to what you want
Search for MP3s on Google
?intitle:index.of? mp3
Another way to search for mp3s on Google is to use this query. After mp3 put up what you want to download and search for it on Google.
Say you want to look up Nirvana, the query will be ?intitle:index.of? mp3 Nirvana
Search for files on megaupload and rapidshare
To see video files available on MegaUpload… put the following in google:avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:megaupload.com
To see all music files available on MegaUpload… google: mp3|ogg|wma site:megaupload.com
To see all archives and programs available on MegaUpload… google: zip|rar|exe site:megaupload.com
To get some ebooks google: pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:megaupload.com
To see video files available on Rapidshare.de… put the following in google: avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:rapidshare.de
To see all music files available on Rapidshare.de… google: mp3|ogg|wma site:rapidshare.de
To see all archives and programs available on Rapidshare.de… google: zip|rar|exe site:rapidshare.de
To get some ebooks google: pdf|doc|lit|rar|zip site:rapidshare.de
For megaupload and rapidshare searching, narrow down you search for what you want by putting your query at the first part.
Say if you want to search for da vinco code ebook use the query
da vinci code pdf|doc|lit|rar|zip site:rapidshare.de
Hope this helps.
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