How to Use Google to download anything

Kimmy Ruska, an American of 21 years, released a video showing how to download free music, games, or movies much faster than the networks of peer-to-peer through ... a simple search on Google or Yahoo.

The video, which has been seen by over 430,000 users, was quickly removed from YouTube - one can easily understand why - but is still available on King Nutter.

The trick lies in the algorithm used to search. It was indeed intended to target servers of American college campuses that many students use to share music with their peers.

For this, he uses the fact that most cases of this type contain the words "index.of" in their repertoire. It can then determine what type of file you want to find (MP3, MP4, AVI, etc.), enter the file name looked so connected (with dots or underscores), then exclude the HTML pages , HTM, etc., research. This gives for example: intitle: "index.of" (MP3 | MP4 | AVI) No.one.knows-html-htm-php - asp-cf-jsp

Ruska even offers to make its search-engine home made by adding the results in brand page and then entering a keyword used to reference input, finally replacing the song you're looking in the URL with% s. Thus, it remains only type for example "No One Knows music" in the navigation bar to the search starts.

"The formula is designed to find Web pages that contain a list of files that include the word MP3" says Matt Cutts, the engineer responsible for quality results on Google. "But there is no guarantee that such research finds music files, many pages may contain the word without creating access to music content.

Nevertheless, it is enough to test it to have no trouble quickly find results. Aware of this diversion, the IFPI has sent "numerous letters warning" to the search engine and ensures that it "will not hesitate to pursue legal action.

But is it the purpose of a search engine to fight against piracy? The European court tends to lean towards this option, with bills to empower Internet service providers. The engines have every interest to prevent such misuse as they have done research with MP3.