Some small updates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://prostopleer.com/

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!