There are many P2P networks outthere who allow you to search for songs and download them. But do you really need to use anything beyond a normal search engine to download some song you just heard on the radio? Could it really be simpler to download music from the normal Internet by using a standard search-engine?

I sometimes take a look at a blog called Le blog du kraken even though I’m not even sure what language it’s in (I guess French?). But it sometimes links to highly interesting information, which is why I look at it from time to time. Like the post “Comment se servir de Google pour télécharger illégalement“.

HOWTO Search wisely

Sites who just list files, such as ftp directories, webserver directories, etc, frequently have “index of” in the title. You can use this to limit Google searches to directories. You can further just search for files who contain a string like “mp3″ or “mpg”.

So if you type this into Google:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3|mp4|mpg|avi|mp4) “some.song”

..then you likely get a whole lot of sites where you can download that song. Note that a dot in the search string means that the field can be blank or _ or a dot.

I like David Bowie. Let’s downoad “Space Oddity”

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3|mp4|mpg|avi|mp4) “Space.Oddity”

This search result turns up some spam, but it also turns up quite a few places you can download this song. And at high speeds, too.

You can even make a “smart” search bookmark in many browsers where you specify that -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3|mp4|mpg|avi|mp4) should be always added when you submit search-text to Google using that bookmark…

Filesharing-networks really aren’t needed to download music from the internet. Google’s index is just as good as the indexes filesharing networks provide for finding mp3’s – just just have to know how to use it.