Here are some tips for Googling:

Make use of the "site", "intitle" and "inurl" delimiters. When used properly, they can make your searches very powerful and concise.

The site: delimiter allows you to search a specific site. Try:

The inurl: delimiter returns pages that have the search term(s) in the actual url of the page. Try googling the following and see what returns:

The intitle: delimiter returns pages that have the search term(s) in the page title (the page title is those words you see in your browser window's title bar). Try googling:

You can also include a bunch of words with the delimiter "allinurl" or "allintitle" and it'll return only Web pages with all your terms in the url or title.

You can also combine any of the above commands in a single search, and group search terms together using parenthesis or plus signs "+". You can use minus signs "-" to exclude terms you don't want to appear in your search results.

You can even search for directories and ftp sites that are open to the Web. Try these:
In those searches, the first few terms (the ones with the minus signs in front) are there to weed out results with "asp", "html", "htm", which are all common file extensions found within normal Web page URLs. We're searching for directory structures here, not normal Web pages.

The delimiter "intitle:" with the words "index of" specifies results with the words "Index of" in the title, which is a phrase most Web server directories and Web ftp sites contain.

Then of course the filetypes grouped together in the format: (xxx|xxx|xxx) look for whatever kinds of files we want to find within the directories. The final word in quotes is another keyword to whatever you want to find. The assumption is that directories named "music" will contain music files, ones named "videos" will contain movies. You can also search for other types of files this way, like pdf files with the keyword "ebooks" or jpegs with the keyword "pr0n". Whatever.

BTW, the use of these kinds of logically structured searches is called "data mining".

What if I wanted say... "The Speed Of Cattle" by Archers of Loaf?

Verbs and Nouns wrote:What if I wanted say... "The Speed Of Cattle" by Archers of Loaf?

http://lucidmedia.blogspot.com/2007/09/ ... attle.html

Skronk wrote:

Verbs and Nouns wrote:What if I wanted say... "The Speed Of Cattle" by Archers of Loaf?

http://lucidmedia.blogspot.com/2007/09/ ... attle.html

Tell me the trick.. I tried the google stuff, but nothing worked!

Start out easy: put both the band name and the album title in quotes and use the inurl: delimiter with the word "rapidshare" or "megaupload" or "blogspot" or "blogger" (since a lot of people share rapidshare links in their blogs)



Returned this:

http://lucidmedia.blogspot.com/2007/09/ ... attle.html

The little link to the right of the album cover pic, labelled "dl" brings us right to this Mediafire page: http://www.mediafire.com/?5jym9bjrxjp

Took me all of about 2 minutes of looking to find this.

Cool. Thanks.

It generally helps to be include a song title "Mmmbop" if the album result came up with too many hits. Like Vitamin C, for example. I had to put "Vitamin C" and "Unhappy Anniversary", a song from her debut, to find it. Too many damned vitamin c pill links showed up.

Actually, spammers seem to have picked up on some of these kinds of searches, because searching for a popular band + the word "rapidshare" or "megaupload" will yield a shit-ton of spam results.

So a lot of times I just look for blog site names in the url. Those kinds of searches are still fairly reliable.

I hope everyone stealing music using "oink" and any other music-stealing site is prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law. You are fucking assholes.

You steal music, which is bad enough, and then you thoughtlessly go on the Electrical Audio message boards talking about stealing music, and telling people how to steal music.

Steve Albini would be well within his rights to put the kibosh on all of you pricks. In fact he's stupid not to. Why would he want a Web site associated with his business to have a bunch of asshole kids helping people steal music?

I have absolutely fucking had it with the sense of entitlement that you assholes have. You want to sit on your fucking asses and take the creative work of people you claim to respect, for nothing. And you want to cry like fucking bitches the minute it appears that this right might, in any little way, be taken away from you.

Go to the fucking record store, cunts. Mail-order goes everywhere now, pricks. Buy music, fucking twats.

katie, a douchebag wrote:I hope everyone stealing music using "oink" and any other music-stealing site is prosecuted to the furthest extent of the law. You are fucking assholes.

You steal music, which is bad enough, and then you thoughtlessly go on the Electrical Audio message boards talking about stealing music, and telling people how to steal music.

Steve Albini would be well within his rights to put the kibosh on all of you pricks. In fact he's stupid not to. Why would he want a Web site associated with his business to have a bunch of asshole kids helping people steal music?

I have absolutely fucking had it with the sense of entitlement that you assholes have. You want to sit on your fucking asses and take the creative work of people you claim to respect, for nothing. And you want to cry like fucking bitches the minute it appears that this right might, in any little way, be taken away from you.

Go to the fucking record store, cunts. Mail-order goes everywhere now, pricks. Buy music, fucking twats.

Uh, got the Speed Of Cattle on vinyl, and by my experience, records + mp3 players don't work that well.

In saying that, I never used Oink.