Gutenberg's Database search
Search by Author or Title. For more guidance, see the Advanced Search page, where you can specify language, topic and more.

• Entering austen, jane in the Author field finds
  books by Jane Austen.
  
• Entering Baum in the Author field and
  and oz
  in the Title field finds L. Frank Baum's Oz books.
  
• Entering dosto in the Author field,
  choosing the Exact start of name option, and entering
  underground in the Title field finds Fyodor Dostoevsky's
  Notes from the Underground, even if you don't remember
  how to spell more than the start of the author's name!
  

These are but examples. Remember that whole national libreries & complete government archives, are going on line *in this very moment* in some god-forgotten country in Africa or Asia... a world of knowledge at your finger tips, as I said... provided you learn how to search...

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The Web and the main search engines
Structure of the Web, Playing with Google


Growth, Spam, Seos, noise, signal

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The searching landscape has changed abruptly during the last months of 2004. New, powerful search engines have appeared, all trying to snatch google from its (until now still deserved) top position. Yahoo has bought fast/alltheweb... and promptly degraded it, almost destroying what many considered the best search engine of the web (way better than google thank to its boolean operators).

A9 is amazon's amazing search engine, that will allow any simple bot to fetch COMPLETE books, snippet by snippet, using the context search functions.
Another New contendent: MSN new beta "super" search, while still in its infancy, has introduced three sliders that put google to shame... Alas, MSbeta's own algos deliver queryresults that are not as pertinent as google, and its SERPs are -as a consequence- next to useless. But we should never underestimate the enemy, and we should never underestimate Microsoft.

A9 and MSSearch Beta are just two examples. Of course they now compete not only with google, but also with teoma and fast (alltheweb), now powering yahoo.
There are MANY other main search engines though, and some of these deserve attention, for instance inktomi, maybe the most underestimated big search engine in the world, which has one of the richest search syntaxes, with lots of unique features and a ranking algo which works often quite well.

Also, Kartoo is a very interesting "meta-engine" for seekers, because of its useful graphic "semantic connections". Using it you'll often find new angles for your queries.

You would be well advised to note that there are also -now- more and more engines with their own CACHE, a complete copy of the web they have indexed, copied pages that you can access even if the original ones have disappeared, a fact that turns out to be EXTREMELY important in our quicksand web, where sites disappear at an alarming rate. At the moment, apart google, we have A9, MSNbetasearch, Baidu & Gigablast, all of them with their very useful caches.

Of course there is always -also- good ole Webarchive to take care of all those disappeared sites.

So we have many main search engines (and you would be wrong in using only google, because they overlap only in part), and yet you should understand that all main search engines together cover but a small part of the web.

Google, the biggest of them all, covers -allegedly- around 8 billion pages. Altogether, when you count the overlappings, all main search engines cover at most one half of the web (if ever).
Let's have a more detailed look at google's depth using, for instance the "Rimbaudian" wovels approach:
a (like apple) : 7,440,000,000
i (like i-tools) : 2,750,000,000
e (like e-online) : 1,840,000,000
o (like O'Reilly) : 923,000,000
u (like whatuseek) : 457,000,000

If you want to get the whole 8 billions ka-bazoo, you simply query using the english article the :-)

REDUNDANCE SEARCHING

Let's play a little Epanalepsis, just to show you some "angles":
the the : 72,800,000
Yumm, just doubling the article reduces from 8,000,000,000 to 72,800,000 (more pertinent) sites :-)
the the the : 73,500,000
the the the the : 71,900,000
Usually the redundance trick gets 'stuck' when you try to repeat the searchterm too much. Just repeating a search term twice, however, cuts a lot of noise.

So, to make an example that some of you will enjoy, the moronical one-word search string ddos gives you 899,000 results, while the slightly less moronical query ddos ddos gives you around half that number (474,000) and these results have also less noise.
Can we do better? Yes of course... let's kill all those useless "com" sites: ddos ddos -".com" : 203,000 results, mucho more cleano.

Some of you would probably think: great, then this is the way to go... just double the queryterm and eliminate the ".com" sites, how simple and elegant...
Maybe, for a broad search, but for a serious work on ddos attacks you may also find relevant signal with a specific SCHOLAR search engine (limiting it to the most recent months):
ddos ddos "june | july | august | september | october 2004" This is a MUCH more useful ddos query
However seeking, once more, is NOT (or only in part) made using the main search engines.

In order to understand searching strategies, you have first to understand how the web looks like.
First of all the web is at the same time extremely static AND a quicksand, an oximoron? No, just an apparent contradiction.

See: Only less than one half of the pages available today will be available next year.
Hence, after a year, about 50% of the content on the Web will be new. The Quicksand.
Yet, out of all pages that are still available after one year (one half of the web), half of them (one quarter of the web), have not changed at all during the year. The static aspect

Those are the "STICKY" pages.
Henceforth the creation of new pages is a much more significant source of change on the Web than the changes in the existing pages. Coz relatively FEW pages are changed: Most Webpages are either taken off the web, or replaced with new ones, or added ex novo.
Given this low rate of web pages' "survival", historical archiving, as performed by the Internet Archive, is of critical importance for enabling long-term access to historical Web content. In fact a significant fraction of pages accessible today will be QUITE difficult to access next year.
But "difficult to access" means only that: difficult to access. In fact those pages will in the mean time have been copied in MANY private mirroring servers. One of the basic laws of the web is that
EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN PUT ON THE WEB ONCE WILL LIVE ON COPYCATTED ELECTRONS FOREVER
How to find it, is another matter :-)

Some simple rules:
1. always use more than one search engine! "Google alone and you'll never be done!"
2. Always use lowercase queries! "Lowercase just in case"
3. Always use MORE searchterms, not only one "one-two-three-four, and if possible even more!" (5 words searching);
This is EXTREMELY important. Note that -lacking better ideas- even a simple REPETITION of the same term -as we have seen- can give you more accurate results:

Playing with google

yo-yo;
images;
scholar;
timeslice;
long phrase arrow: "'who is that?' Frodo asked, when he got a chance to whisper to Mr. Butterbur")

Structure of the web. Explain tie model and diameter 19-21: do not dispair, never

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Regional searching.
The importance of languages and of on line translation services and tools


One of the main reasons why the main search engines together cover (at best) just something less than 1/2 of the web is a LINGUISTIC one. The main search engines are, in fact, "englishocentric" if I may use this term, and in many cases - which is even worse - are subject to a heavy "americanocentric bias".

The web is truly international, to an extent that even those that did travel a lot tend to underestimate. Some of the pages you'll find may point to problems, ideals and aims so 'alien' from your point of view that -even if you knew the language or if they happen to be in english- you cannot even hope to understand them. On the other hand this multicultural and truly international cooperation may bring some fresh air in a world of cloned Euro-American zombies who drink the same coke with the same bottles, wear the same shirts, the same shoes (and the same pants), and sit ritually in the same McDonalds in order to perform their compulsory, collective and quick "reverse shitting".

But seekers need to understand this Babel if they want to add depth to their queries.
Therefore they need linguistic aids.

There are MANY linguistic aids out there on the web, and many systems that allow you to translate a page, or a snippet of text from say, Spanish, into English or viceversa.

As an example of how powerful such services can be in order to understand, for example, a Japanese site, have a look at the following trick:

RIKAI
An incredible translator!
http://www.rikai.com/perl/Home.pl
Try it for instance onto http://www.shirofan.com/ See? It "massages" WWW pages and places "popup translations" from the EDICT database behind the Japanese text!

for instance
http://www.rikai.com/perl/LangMediator.En.pl?mediate_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shirofan.com%2F
See?
You can use this tool to "guess" the meaning of many a japanese page or -and especially- japanese search engine options, even if you do not know Japanese :-)
You can easily understand how, in this way, you can -with the proper tools- explore the wealth of results that the japanese, chinese, korean, you name them, search engines may (and probably will) give you.

Let's search for "spanish search engines"... see?
Let's now search for "buscadores hispanos"... see?

Zapping the greatest free linguistic resource of the web

Another possible approach is what has been explained in the Das grosse européenne bellissimo search essay, where I underlined how the fact that the European Union allows free access to his huge and truly immense document database (millions of laws and other documents, all of them translated -now after the enlargement- into *20* lanuages) is tantamount -in terms of importance for searchers- to the US-Pentagon having allowed every traveller to use the military GPS services for free.

Here just a couple of examples among million possibilities: you search for, say,
spamming or information society on the europa server and you find a document on spamming on the "Official Journal C 051 E , 26/02/2004 P. 0178 - 0179", or one on the information society on the "Official Journal L 321 , 06/12/2003 P. 0041 - 0042".

You may have a look at them, at once, in english AND IN ANY OTHER OF THE 20 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES of the Union!

Hence you can search -with your own powerful arrows- using languages that you do not even know!

for instance use the form below to fetch the spamming document (2004c051) or the information society document ( 2003l321) in PDF format, in english (or in any other language).

Fetch a JO on the fly  ("l" or "c")

(Build a string like 2004c051)

en fr de it nl es el pt sv da fi cs et lv lt hu mt pl sk sl    string →

(Leading zeroes MUST be MANUALLY added)

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Combing
Stalking & Klebing


The first -simple- combing approach (remember, COMBING: searching those that have already searched) is to use old glorious USENET!
Usenet
Messageboards
Homepages
Webrings
getting at the target "from behind": netcraft, synecdochical searching, guessing.

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More "webs" in the web: the rings: USENET, IRC, P2P


How many webs out there? A lot!
It is always worth THINKING about your target's habitat before starting your long term searching trip. If you are looking for assembly knowledge, for instance, you should know that there are DIFFERENT and MANY groups that deal with that:
1) Virus writers (that of course must know assembly cold)
2) and their corollary: virus-protection software programmers (maybe the same guys, who knows? :-)
3) crackers (that break software protection schemes, often enough changing a single byte of a kilometer long 'high language' protection :-)
4) on-line gamers, those that would sell their aunts to have a character with more lifes or magic swords when playing on their on-line game servers. By the way: on-line gamers are often also -for the same reason- quite good IP-protocol and server-client experts :-)

Similarly, if you were looking for password breaking and database entering (without authorization,la va sans dire), you would also have to consider different communities:
1) seekers (as I'll explain below, we need to be able to go everywhere on the web, otherwise we cannot seek effectively :-)
2) porn-afecionados (that have devised incredible methods to enter their beloved filth-databases)
3) people that need consulting scholarly (often medical) magazines (that, alas, often enough require registration and money and/or a university account to be read... something which is rather annoying :-)

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Longterm searching and short term searching
Our Bots and scrolls

"One shot" queries and careful "weeks-long" combing and klebing preparation and social engineering practices.
The "15 minutes" rule. If in 15 minutes you don't hear the signal, your search strategy is wrong. Do not insist and change approach.

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Databases, hidden databases, passwords
Politically correct Borland & lists
Nomen est omen & Guessing

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password searches:
Searching entries 'around the web', no specific target, using 'common' passwords:
For instance: bob:bob

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For instance: 12345:54321
james:james ~

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Searching entries to a specific site (not necessarily pr0n :-):
For instance: "http://*:*@www" supermodeltits

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Fishing info out of the web:
password3.htm
Examples of absolute password stupidity: http://www.smcvt.edu/access/ejournal_passwords.htm

Of course the above page does not exist any more, since I used it for an example of absolute stupidity two years ago. But, as pointed out before, NOTHING can disappear of the web. So let us have this page... this example of absolute stupidity re-wake from his grave through webarchive: http://web.archive.org/web/20030101215331/http://www.smcvt.edu/access/ejournal_passwords.htm

And, should they try to eliminate it even from webarchive, I have made anyway a personal copy...   hehe. Note that there are on teh web MANY password repositories like this one...

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The above is not 'politically correct' is it? But it works. And speaking of "politically correctness", some of you will love the Borland hardcoded password faux pas... Databases are inherently weak little beasts, duh, quod erat demonstrandum.

Also some lists?  

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WEBBITS
powerful arrows fo everyday use




What we call webbits are specific "ready made" queries that will allow you to bypass most of the crap and of the censorship, most of the noise that covers your signal.

RABBITS (out of the hat)

The "index of" approach using MSN new beta search: http://search.msn.com/results.asp?f=any&q=%2B%22Index+of%22+%2BName+%2B%22Last+modified%22+%2B%22Parent+Directory%22%0A&FORM=SMCA&cfg=SMCINK&v=1&ba=0&rgn=&lng=&depth=&sort=&d0=&d1=&cf=
Inktomi: http://169.207.238.189/search.cfm?query=%2B%26quot%3BIndex%20of%26quot%3B%20%2BName%20%2B%26quot%3BLast%20modified%26quot%3B%20%2B%26quot%3BParent%20Directory%26quot%3B&first=20&adult=0

More webbits for you to try out at the bottom of this paper.

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Homepages and Email one-shot providers and 'light' anonymity

It's simply amazing how many possibilities you have to create "one-shot" email addresses with huge repositories where you can upload, share and download QUICKLY whatever you fancy. For these very reasons, on these places you can also, often enough, find some very juicy targets -)

Of course, for "survival" reasons, you should use some tricks for your files. Especially in copyright obsessed countries, or if you personally are not politically correct - or obedient - vis-à-vis your local national copyright dictatorship.
A simple trick is what I like to call the "zar" compression method (zip+ace+rar): You zip (and password protect), then ace (and password protect), then rar (and password protect) your file. Or choose any other sequence of the various packers, for instance first zip (then stegano into a -say- wav file), then ace the result (then stegano into a -say- rm file), then, again, rar the result (then stegano again into -say- a (huge) pdf file)... you get the hang of it... You decide the sequences.

(You'll of course automate this process using a simple batch file)

Then, once done, you change the name of your resulting file to -say- a tiff format (even if it is no tiff file, who cares? :-) and up it goes! Better if split into many (at least two) parts. Noone/nobot will really try to see/reconstruct the picture, they will think, at worse, it is some kind of corrupted file, especially if you call it in your email subject something like "tiff with x rays of my last shoulder fracture": they won't be so easily able to sniff your real data either, unless they have really *a lot of time* and/or are really after you :-).

Once your friends download the file, they will go all the steps you have chosen in reverse (with a batch file), and that's it.

Phone them the password(s) for some added (light) anonimity.

Here is a short list of 1 (or more) giga providers, and then also an ad hoc webbit to find more...

 Yahoo: (USA, very quick, 1 GB free storage space + homepage)
 Yahoo china: (USA/China, very quick, 1 GB free storage space + homepage, you'll have to compile your data using the real yahoo as a muster, coz everything is in chinese here)
 Walla: (Israel, quick, 1 GB free storage space ~ 10 MB mail attachments)
 Rediff: (India, quick, 1 GB free storage space ~ 10 MB mail attachments)
 gmx.de: (Germany, quick, 1-3 GB free storage space)
unitedemailsystem: (Singapore, slow, 3 GB free storage space)
interways: (USA, quick, 1 GB free storage space)
mailbavaria: (USA, part of interways, quick, 1 GB free storage space)
omnilect: (Texas, quick, 2 GB free storage space)
maktoob: (Arabic, slow, 1 GB free storage space)


"Light anonymity" must know
Of course when you sign up for these services you should NEVER give them your real data.
Lie to them a-plenty and shamelessly, like there were no tomorrow... coz there isn't one :-)
But in order to "build" a credible lie, you need some real data. And there are plenty of personal data around if you use the right webbit
A very simple method: just take a book from your library... here for instance, Bill Rosenblatt, Learning the Korn Shell, O'Reilly, 103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, California 95472. Such data are more than enough to "get signed" anywhere as, for instance, "Rose Billenblatt", 103 Morris Street, Suite B (if there's a "suite A", chances are there'll be a "suite B", duh), Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA. A very credible, solid address.
Should you have to answer any further question when signing up for a "free" email address (your occupation, your level of income...) just choose either the FIRST option of the proposed alternatives ("accountant", "over 10 million bucks per month") or select always the option "other" so that they will add even more crap to their lists :-)
Point to remember: on the web you NEVER give away your true identity.

Do not feel bad while feeding them only lies: the very reason they HAVE such "free" email addresses sites is -of course- to READ everything you write and to have a copy of everything you upload or create. Of course no human being will ever read what you write, but their bots and grepping algos will do it for the owners of the "free" email services (or of the "free" search engines), presenting them nice tables built on your private data as a result.

Imagine you yourself are controlling, say, yahoo, and you notice (through your greps) that 2 thousand (or hundredthousand) bozos are suddendly going right now to advise their friend to sell tomorrow all shares of, say, pepsi cola... Youd ig it? Insider trading is NOTHING in comparison with the insider data you can have sniffing emails or search queries on the main search engines... or why did you think you have "free" search engines in the first place? Coz yahoo and google owners are nice people that want to help you finding stuff on the web? Nope. The real reason is obvious: in order to know what people are searching for, duh. That's the reason you should always strive to give them as few data as you can. It's like the supermarket "fidelity cards": they just want to stuff their databases for next to free in order to know how much you cry/shit/sleep and/or make love. To spend less money and gain more money from their customers, not the other way round for sure, despite the lilliputian "discounts" they advertise for the zombies that use fidelity cards.

A last point: the list of free email accounts above is of course NOT exhaustive. To fetch MANY more freemail accounts you just build a simple webbit ad hoc:
walla rediff unitedemailsystems

Of course, for email providers, as for everything else, there are ad hoc communities and specific messageboards, worth perusing...

There are also MANY providers that will give you limited accounts (as many as you want, but they'll die after -say- 30 days), for instance runbox...
Such accounts are IDEAL for quick transfer of files between friends (Runbox: 1 GB email storage ~ 100 MB file storage ~ 30 MB message size limit, 30 days limit).
Accounts that are nuked after a given number of days are even better, in "twilight" cases :-) vis-à-vis accounts that remain for ever, even when you have forgotten having used them :-)

Yet please note that, in order to offer 1 gigabyte throw-away email addresses for free, you need to be able to offer a SIGNIFICANT server configuration, which is rarer as you may think, and -hence- that most of the "small" 1-giga email repositories are -mostly- just scam sites that do not work, so, if you want to be "sure and pampered" stick with the known big working ones: walla, yahoo (& yahoo china) gmx, and rediff.

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Where to learn
Libraries
scholar

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What browser to use, what tools
Opera (the browser is your sword because you fight for time when browsing)
The "image off" trick. Speed, speed!
Ethereal
Proxomitron
Ipticker

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A glimpse of the web?
How does the web look like?
Probably like some "sfera con sfera" sculptures of the artist A. Pomodoro (the "pomodoro" model):



here another example   and another one

The outer sphere would represent the web "at large" with its ~ 23 billions sites.
The inner sphere is the INDEXED web, that you could reach just using the main search engine, with its ~ 11 billions indexed sites.
The holes in the structure are all the "disappeared" pages

Another theory is the well-known "tie model", with linked, linkers and its reassuring always tiny "click diameter". Yet another one is the "rings model", with IRC,P2P and USENET as separate rings from the bulk.

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Let's find a book

Let's begin from the beginning. As most of you I am sure have already realized, we live in a world where crap is king and at the same time good, useful alternatives are hard to find.
This is -alas- true for most things, for instance cars, clothes, toys, politicians, games, films, wines, musics and books.
Let's take say -appropriate for this "ccc" audience- "computer books".
Anyone among us can enter a bookshop and have a look at the computer books on sale. Shelfs over shelfs of "Discover Perl", "Learn C++Net in 12 days" and whatsnot: the absolute crap, hundred of meters of absolute crap books, guaranteed to teach nothing and remain actual, at best, a couple of months.

Try to find books about assembly, on the other hand, and you will be in for a surprise: nothing, or next to nothing. That's because assembly knowledge both lasts forever and gives you real power, and noone is really interested in selling you that.

But there is no reason why you should buy those crap books anyway. In fact they are all on the web... moreover, the copies on the web are probably more "uptodate" than what you would find in the best shop in Berlin.
Huge repositories of all O'reilly books in many chinese and korean servers, for instance, complete pdf copies of all those moronical "for dummies" crap everywhere you would care to search.

I'll now give you a "Moldovian" example, that has the added advantage of demonstrating at the same time the importance of names on the web.

Please note that this is legal only for all those among you that are students of the university of Moldova, one of the many countries without copyright enforcement laws, the others should buy their useless books in the useless bookshps, la va sans dire.

O'reilly Google hacking
  Lord * of the ring (or also msn search)
Historia langobardorum (just to show that this feature is useful for studying purposes, and not only for stealing books :-)

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Let's find a song
mp3 wm4 webbits

MP3


So, I imagine you want to know HOW to find mp3 on the web? Say some music by Dylan (I am old, ya know?)
Well the answer is of course NOT to use arrows like mp3 or, say, dylan mp3 music, which will only sink you into the most awful commercial morasses.
Even the old good arrow +"index of" +mP3 +dylan has been recently broken by the commercial pests, and even the -".com" suffix wont help in these cases.
Of course anyone could find "a lot of" music using for instance the "allintitle" parameter with google allintitle: "index of/mp3/" but we want to find specific mp3, not just a lot of crap, don't we?

But we have MORE arrows :-)
"index +of" "last Modified" "size" eminem let's try it :-)

Wanna try another one? "Apache/1.3.29 Server at " mp3 lavigne

See?
Quod erat demonstrandum: The web was made to SHARE, not to hoard  :-)



Of course we have more "musical" webbits: here for instance an ogg related one
Ogg as also the advantage of being not PROPRIETARY like mp3...

Here the good old "andromeda" trick: powered+by+Andromeda+version+1.9.2+PHP

Here a recent one I found two days ago myself: using the small image of a musical note that appears in most mp3 listings:  

But if you insist in searching for mp3 another good idea would be to use search engines situated in less "copyright obsessed" countries, like Baidu...


Of course music-aficionados have their own messageboards, where they list the most juicy servers they found (once again this is combing: finding people that have already found):
Example of a "MP3-fanatics" messageboard:  
Example of a "juicy" server:  

If you comb the web just a little, you'll quickly find out that some people "trade" (for free) mp3s on many "high quality" networks
Example:  
"high quality" because all mp3s must have very high bitrates (say more than 192).
Like in a torrent system, the amount of material available is huge, but you will get dropped if you do not contribute.

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Let's find a program
It's very easy once you have the exact name, for instance TorrentSpy-0.2.4.26-win32.zip. Else you can simply try the serial path.
Examples of the serial path:  

See? The point being, as usual, that you should never throw money away when you need books, music, software or scholarly material. The web provides everything for free, everywhere. It was MADE for this. It was made in order to share material, not to sell or hoard it. Its structure, as you have seen, is such that trying to sell something that has been published on the web is tantamount to a
Chances are you won't need to give money away for your STUDIES any more very soon: some universities have begun to put all their courses, for free, on the web. An approach still in fieri, that will probably be more common in a few years time.
Example: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html: "a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world".

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Gran Finale

Let's see if we can fish something interesting out of the web for our friends in Moldovia (where there are no laws defending copyright, alas). La va sans dire that you are allowed to use programs found in this way only in Moldova...

Rosen's page and other examples...
 

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SEARCHING FOR DISAPPEARED SITES

http://web.archive.org/collections/web/advanced.html ~ The 'Wayback' machine, explore the Net as it was!

Visit The 'Wayback' machine at Alexa, or try your luck with the form below.

Alternatively learn how to navigate through [Google's cache]!

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Search the Web of the past

Weird stuff... you can search for pages that no longer exist! VERY useful to find those '404-missing' docs that you may badly need...

1996  1997   1998  1999   2000  2001



Max. Results   All 10 25 50 100 500 1000 2500 5000

NETCRAFT SITE SEARCH

(http://www.netcraft.com/ ~ Explore 15,049,382 web sites)

VERY useful: you find a lot of sites based on their own name and then, as an added commodity, you also discover immediately what are they running on...

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Search Tips site contains site starts with site ends with subdomain matches Example: site contains [searchengi] (a thousand sites eh!)

Google timeslice daterange

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• The Art of Guessing by .sozni
• The weird ways of searching and the weird findings by SvD
• Cat burglers in the museum after dark (How to eneter a Museum database "from behind") by Humphrey P.
• The Zen of porn-images searching by Giglio
• Powerbrowsing by +Mala
• Feed the search engines with synonyms by sonofsamiam
• A small research into SIRS researcher database accesses by Humphrey P.
• A re-ranking trilogy  by fravia+
• [eurosearch.htm]: Das grosse européenne bellissimo search
  by fravia+ (Taking advantage of free polylinguistic tools when searching)
• [inktomi.htm]: Inktomi's search syntax
  by Nemo, part of the essays.htm section.
  Inktomi is one of the best search engines out there. Unfortunately its search syntax is not well documented, which is a pity, because Inktomi offers one of the richest search syntaxes, with lots of unique features and a ranking algo which works often quite well. "Our Tools" Lore
  
• Quite an addition, by ronin and another addition by Nemo, additions to the [ar1essay.htm]: The "index +of" seekers' trick by aapje & ritz.   "Quite an addition: for instance intitle:"index of /" "parent directory" +"*.nfo" +"*.rar" +"*.r05"..." power searching
• [rabbits.htm]: Catching web-rabbits (Catching the rabbit's ears & pulling files out of the hat )
  by VVAA, part of the [Essays]. Advanced Web searching tricks
• A PHP-LAB production:
  [http://fravia.2113.ch/phplab/wopen.htm]: The Wand of Opening ~ an accompanying essay by ~S~ loki, and ~S~ Mordred
  Demonstrate the weakness of a large part (not to say the majority) of website's protections built on 'client side' gates ~ Create a script that'll break through most of these protections.
  part of the [PHP-oslse] section. "Hidden database" opening!

       
#mysql dump filetype:sql
AIM buddy lists
allinurl:/examples/jsp/snp/snoop.jsp
allinurl:servlet/SnoopServlet
cgiirc.conf
cgiirc.conf
filetype:conf inurl:firewall -intitle:cvs
filetype:eml eml +intext:"Subject" +intext:"From" +intext:"To" 
filetype:lic lic intext:key 
filetype:mbx mbx intext:Subject 
filetype:wab wab 
Financial spreadsheets: finance.xls
Financial spreadsheets: finances.xls
Ganglia Cluster Reports
generated by wwwstat
haccess.ctl 
haccess.ctl 
Host Vulnerability Summary Report
HTTP_FROM=googlebot googlebot.com "Server_Software="
ICQ chat logs, please...
Index of / "chat/logs"
intext:"Tobias Oetiker" "traffic analysis"
intitle:"index of" mysql.conf OR mysql_config 
intitle:"statistics of" "advanced web statistics"
intitle:"Usage Statistics for" "Generated by Webalizer"
intitle:"wbem" compaq login
intitle:admin intitle:login
intitle:index.of "Apache" "server at"
intitle:index.of cleanup.log
intitle:index.of dead.letter
intitle:index.of inbox
intitle:index.of inbox dbx
intitle:index.of ws_ftp.ini
inurl:"newsletter/admin/"
inurl:"newsletter/admin/" intitle:"newsletter admin"
inurl:"smb.conf" intext:"workgroup" filetype:conf conf
inurl:admin filetype:xls
inurl:admin intitle:login
inurl:cgi-bin/printenv
inurl:changepassword.asp
inurl:fcgi-bin/echo
inurl:main.php phpMyAdmin
inurl:main.php Welcome to phpMyAdmin
inurl:perl/printenv
inurl:server-info "Apache Server Information"
inurl:server-status "apache"
inurl:tdbin
inurl:vbstats.php "page generated"
ipsec.conf
ipsec.secrets
ipsec.secrets
Most Submitted Forms and Scripts "this section"
mt-db-pass.cgi files
mystuff.xml - Trillian data files
Network Vulnerability Assessment Report
not for distribution confidential
phpinfo.php
phpMyAdmin "running on" inurl:"main.php"
phpMyAdmin dumps
phpMyAdmin dumps
produced by getstats
Request Details "Control Tree" "Server Variables"
robots.txt
robots.txt "Disallow:" filetype:txt
robots.txt "Disallow:" filetype:txt
Running in Child mode
site:edu admin grades
SQL data dumps
Squid cache server reports
Thank you for your order +receipt
This is a Shareaza Node
This report was generated by WebLog

    

Nemo solus satis sapit

More than twenty years ago - some of you where not yet born - a great professor and mentor of mine, here in Berlin, told me that you may either know the correct answer to a specific question, which requires a sound knowledge and/or good memory, or you may know where to find that answer, which is even better, but requires both a sound knowledge and strong evaluation skills.

My hope is that the techniques I tried to explain today may help you to bypass at least in part something that -before the web- required *years* of study: how to find that elusive "where to find that answer" and henceforth how to find "a correct answer" to any specific question.

So, that was it, thanks for listening... any questions?

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