Exploseek's Search Blog

Google images now has the date option

2011-08-01T17:05:00.000+02:00

I tested this for a while but it never worked. I was amazed to see that they finally released this now. To filter images for date it is a matter of adding

&tbs=qdr:m (for a month)
&tbs=qdr:w (for a week)
&tbs=qdr:d (for a day)

to the URL. The structure seems to be the same one as for the normal search results.

Some small updates

2011-03-18T16:48:00.000+01:00

Time really flies...

music:
no change

vids:
Both google videos and youtube search results are now sorted by upload date, which is very useful if we regularly check our favourite artists. Also rare material will be easier found in that way (or you will find it before it is removed). The other search engines are removed. Google video includes the most important ones, including youtube of course but that one is worth posting directly also.

images:
MS Live images changed to Bing images and corrected the query.
Flickr images sorted by upload date. Fotopic removed, tinypic removed, textamerica removed, bebo removed and mobypicture added.

It looks like http://www.google.com/search?output=ie&q= bites the dust

2010-07-11T01:49:00.000+02:00

http://www.google.com/search?output=ie&q=test

I'm sure there must be another one, if anyone knows one let it know.

A link to STH

2010-06-29T23:47:00.000+02:00

Not really search related... although... This forum is the reason that Exploseek started. I was also posting there years ago, it seems still a great place.

I would say if you find a nice site first bulk download it then post it at

http://www.dotcomjunkies.com/members/Stairway_to_Heaven/forum/

megaupload rapidshare google query

2010-06-10T22:38:00.000+02:00

I've added two test queries, although it's under the category 'music' it is for both music/video in general.

A direct query within the megaupload.com domain (using site:) seems to be very useful, for rapidshare that doesn't give much results therefore I've also added a query 'megaupload.com OR rapidshare.com ' and if you are lucky rapid gives it to you, if your IP adress is not timed-out. With that query you will, of course, also find links to a lot of rapidshare or megaupload search engines that you can check individually. I have no idea if it is useful to add those and I'm not really into them.

Found a nice Reverse Image Search tool

2010-05-27T14:43:00.000+02:00

http://www.tineye.com/

You can upload a photo or point to a URL and it attemps to find similar images.

pdf / magazine search and Issuu

2010-05-21T21:39:00.000+02:00

Google's pdf option is very useful to find pdf files/magazines, I created a query in the compact format.

Also Issuu (for publishing) is very nice, although not all publishers also have PDFs on their site, I've put it under the pdf category.

http://www.google.com/ie alternative

2010-05-13T19:54:00.000+02:00

It seems that it is still possible to use the nice interface if you replace

http://www.google.com/ie?q=

by

http://www.google.com/search?output=ie&q=

Fixed for now.

A movie query

2010-04-09T11:03:00.000+02:00

This is what sometimes work to find movies. The trick is to use 699M because that fits on a cd.
Also things like 698M OR 697M etc will work. Be aware of spammers and use your virusscanner for all content you download!

http://www.google.com/ie?q=%22parent+directory%22+699M+avi+OR+mpg+OR+mpeg+OR+asf+OR+wmv+OR+mov+-html+-htm+-shtml+-phtml+-php+-buy+-aspx+-jsp+-asp+-cgi+-pdf+-ftp&num=100&hl=nl

Prostopleer seems to have a high succes rate

2010-03-21T22:19:00.000+01:00

I recently heard about this one. This is surely a one soon to be added...

http://prostopleer.com/

2010-03-17T14:40:00.000+01:00

I've updated the exclusions also in the other search engines. It seems that Bing works also with adding simple - signs in the query. This should also work for yahoo but it still lists some of the results, even if you use advanced search and choose the option to exclude it from the url.

For example, if you exclude html and htmin the urls, like the following query

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22parent+directory%22+AND+%28%22Elvis+Presley%22+OR+%22ElvisPresley%22+%29+AND+%28mp3+OR+wma+OR+ogg%29+-inurl%3Ahtml+-inurl%3Ahtm

It still gives results containing htm(l) in the url.

Other changes:

- Exalead query corrected
- Multimedia mp3 search engines temporarily disabled

Don't forgot that it is all possible to mail or reply about good search engines/tools or queries!

It seems harder to find open (apache) indexes than before

2010-03-16T16:38:00.000+01:00

The old "index of" or "parent directory" trick is now used by a lot of websites to get traffic, even if you add -html -htm -shtml -phtml -php -buy -aspx -jsp -asp -cgi -pdf -ftp, what I just tested for the google music query (first one). A lot of sites are even no open indexes. Some of them are fake open indexes or some of them are password protected or redirect to spam links.
I think it is not physically possible to exclude the spam sites because the query becomes to large. The only way to check this is to process the url itself which should then be done on the server or with a client sided script. However there is still a chance to find material in this simple way.

1st message

2010-03-12T21:50:00.000+01:00

Hello reader. From this moment I will keep a blog of every change I make to exploseek and also all interesting search things that are worth mentioning. I haven't changed the site for a while and some of the queries are old and/or have expired. I also checked the server logs recently and the visitors have dropped a lot, which is a bad thing. This blog will hopefully force me to maintain the tool. Stay tuned