GOOGLE HACKS

                      GOOGLE HACKS

We all use google on a daily basis, but how many times we have come across limitations in our ability to use google more effectively? The aim of this article is to help you to use google more efficiently.

 Accessing sites without registration

Many of the websites requires the user to register in order to browse or download contents from it. But most of them allow the google bot to search on these pages. Google bot is a program used by google to map the contents of a site. Each time our browser sends a request for a page it sends an HTTP header which contain a field user agent, what we are going to do is modify this user agent field and make our request looks like the one made by the google bot. Instead of modifying it each time we use a firefox add-on called user-agent switcher. You can install it from tools>add-ons. After installing you need to add a new user agent. Go to tools>default use agent>edit user agent>new> new user agent
give the following values
Description:crawl-66-249-66-1.googlebot.com
User Agent:Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
click ok. Whenever you wants to browse free go to default user agents and set this as the user agent.

 

Search google efficiently

Google Operators

These operators help us to give search queries to google more effectively, using these operators we can query google more efficienly. eg: if we want to search for all pdf files on the subject 'google hacks', we can use the following query (without quotes) and search "filetype:pdf google hacks".

The following are some very useful operators.
The syntax is operator:string1 string2...

intitle - searches the title of web pages with string1
eg: intitle:tech hacks
the above will search for tech in the title of pages and hacks as the content

allintitle - searches all string1,string2... in the title of web pages.


inurl - similar to intitle but searches in the url of pages instead of title

allinurl - similar to allintitle but searches in the url instead of title

filetype - searches for specified filetype
eg: filetype:doc programming
the above will search for microsoft word documents containing "programming"

allintext - searches all strings in the text of a page, ie it wont search in the url,title,link etc of the page

 

 

Google proxy

A proxy is a server which acts as an intermediate between our browser and server. Each request the browser sending is received by the proxy it then forwards this request to the actual sever and returns the reply back. Using this technique it is possible to access blocked by using a proxy which is not blocked. Google provides a great solution by providing a service called google proxy, it is actually made for translating languages but can be used as a proxy, as google is not usually blocked.

To do this goto  http://translate.google.com/  and type the url of the site you want to visit.

Here type the url of site you want to translate, select the suitable language to translate, click translate....

tags:- google, hacks, proxy, operators, browse web freely, user agent, switcher