Okay peeps, I’m sure most of you know how to use Limewire and Bittorrentthese days. But, I’ll bet you haven’t used Google to perform a quickMp3 search for the nagging song that’s been stuck in your head allday. The truth is that Google can be used to conduct a search foralmost any file type, including Mp3s, PDFs, and videos. Thisfunctionality has been available for a long time, but most usershaven’t caught on to it. So here’s a quick example of how to useGoogle to search for Mp3s. It’s like turning Google into the Napster of 2000.
The following is a Google search string for searching open webdirectories containing downloadable Nirvana music files. Substitutethe term Nirvana in the search string for any other band of yourliking. You can always bookmark the search result for future use.
With some very slight modifications the same search string can easily be used to search for ebooks in DOC and PDF format:
Or perhaps your looking for some specific video file:
You can check the official Google Advanced Search Operators page for further details on editing this search string to meet your specific needs. Enjoy yourselves!
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