Internet in-depth search codes

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Thy Grand Voidinesss
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Internet in-depth search codes

Post by Thy Grand Voidinesss »

There used to be time [up to something like 6-7 years ago] when I could just put in Google a digital incantation like

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intitle:"index.of" (alac|ape|ogg|flac|mp2|mp3|mp4|mp+|mpc|mpp|tta|wav|wma|wv) Love.Me -asp -cf -htm -html -jsp -php -mid -mod -nfo -sap -txt -xm -xmi
and it would spit records for some hard to find places that would have file "Love Me" in one of the many audio formats that are usable to be - plus surely disregards many others common file formats irrelevant in the context of what I was looking for [a song]. But that had stopped working. And so I tried finding a newer Google spell but a charm code like

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filetype:mp3 OR filetype:wma Love.Me
also do not seem to work at all


So does anyone know how to bewitch Google [or DuckDuckGo or any other search engine] in these days?
Last edited by Thy Grand Voidinesss on Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.
therube
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Re: Internet in-depth search codes

Post by therube »

I get 8 results on my end (with the intitle: search)?
Carole King, The Shirelles...
(google, & SeaMonkey browser)

Are you not seeing any, or expecting more?
Thy Grand Voidinesss
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Re: Internet in-depth search codes

Post by Thy Grand Voidinesss »

I get just a handful of results even when using

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intitle:"index.of" (alac|ape|ogg|flac|mp2|mp3|mp4|mp+|mpc|mpp|tta|wav|wma|wv) Love -asp -cf -htm -html -jsp -php -mid -mod -nfo -sap -txt -xm -xmi
which is clearly wrong, as there must be thousands of just songs that have word Love in their title and thus in filenames holding them. So if I add also audiobooks title and multiple possible different files by all those fileformats and various FTP and ordinary sites then what I should be getting is 99 pages of results


This is just an explicit example to showcase how this once excellent method has virtually stopped working
Thy Grand Voidinesss
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Re: Internet in-depth search codes

Post by Thy Grand Voidinesss »

Does anyone have anything to add to this topic?
therube
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Re: Internet in-depth search codes

Post by therube »

Might you get more results simply by being less specific?
Granted you'll then come across unwanted results too.

So instead of excluding:
-asp -cf -htm -html -jsp -php -mid -mod -nfo -sap -txt -xm -xmi

don't exclude anything.

And instead including:
(alac|ape|ogg|flac|mp2|mp3|mp4|mp+|mpc|mpp|tta|wav|wma|wv)

leave it more open ended, so maybe only include the mp4 in the search.
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