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April 28, 2005
Searches unveiled
Tech-Recipes offers some Google search strings that
dig up music that might be hard to find otherwise. One such string goes straight into FTP locations storing music
files. I probably wouldn’t share this if it were overwhelmingly piratical, by in experimenting with this string I found
a lot of content that is being shared via the Web. Using the string bypasses the gunk of Web pages and goes straight to
direct download locations. Here is what Tech-Recipes recommends:
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” mp3
This string works only to find FTP locations left unprotected by password. The negative “inurl” tags force
Google to ignore matches occuring on regular Web pages, and the “index of” string is very common to FTP directories. Of
course, the string may be further modified, and MP3 may be replaced by other file types. Speaking theoretically, one
could add a band name to the string and turn up unprotected songs. One question surrounding the ethics of this type of
sharing would be whether an unprotected FTP directory represents an invitation to download, or whether doing so is
stealing (bandwidth, not the music). In some cases the answer is provided by winding back through parent directories
until you arrive at a Web page, which might turn out to be a music-sharing page—just as were so common and
controversial in the pre-Napster era.
(Thanks to Search Engine Journal.)
Posted by roymond at April 28, 2005 06:16 PM
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