Google: Search College Networks for Open Directories Free Music and Video Files

Contributed by MickeyMouse May 31, 2005  
Tagged: Google

Alteration of techrx’s famous mp3 google search. This modification allows you to search focused networks for audio or video files.

College networks are famous for their amount of audio and video files kept on their servers. Thanks to a random forum post I decided to search my college network for free stuff. I was pretty surprised.

In typical techrx style, I’ll try to explain my steps so you can improve on the recipe. Here’s my search string that will search all edu sites for mp3 files:

Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” mp3 site:edu

This isolates directories only…
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" "Last modified"

This searches only educational sites. You can change this to a particular college if you want focus your search.
site:edu

This obviously searches for mp3s. You can change this to avi or mpg if you want to search for video files.
mp3

Searching all educational sites for video files:

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” +(wmv|mpg|avi) site:edu

Here I decided to search my neck of the woods…

-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” “Last modified” mp3 site:gladstone.uoregon.edu

Google allows users to create very specialized and directed searches against a particular site. What files does your network hold?

Props to the original recipe:

Use Google to Find Free MP3s, WMAs, OGGs, and Other Music Files