Google Hack: Finding the files you want

Finding what you want on Google isn't always that easy. This little tutorial will show you how to find the mp3's you want right off Google as well as pretty much any other filetypes. In the search bar type the following, I'll explain what all of it means shortly.

intitle:"index.of" serj.tankian mp3 -htm -html -jsp -asp -php

Now search it, see the results? Google's feature, intitle"index.of", allows us to search the index of websites instead of the physical pages themselves and the search string comes right after it. The dot, between "serj" and "tankian" reflects either spaces, dashes or underscores. Thereafter we tell the search engine which filetype we're looking for with "mp3" and which filetypes to exclude, namely htm, html, jsp, asp and php pages. You can also add -jpg or anything else if you wish.

Next, I'm going to show you how to search particular sites, let's take some governments for example. They often have interesting PDF files so here's the trick:

site:.gov intitle:"index.of" aids pdf -htm -html -jsp -asp -php -txt

As you can see, it's really the same with the exception of the "site:.gov" prefix, you can replace .gov with any other internet TLD and notice that we've eliminated .txt files from our search as well.