Soople: Easy Power Searching with Google

[Phaedrus]

Soople is a control console for Google's many powerful advanced features, bringing them all together in a single easy-to-use interface.

Google's sparse home page masks many features that aren't always easy to find or use. One must either click tabs to search specialised catalogs, or use advanced search commands, or visit "beta" services in Google labs.

Soople takes the opposite approach, surfacing this power with a set of nifty search forms designed to easily exploit Google's power tools. Soople isn't a search engine itself -- rather, it's just an alternate mechanism for getting information of all types out of the Google.

Main page is here.


Worth checking out.


Phaedrus

 

[TIGER]

Nice website...thanks

 

[Phaedrus]

Some interesting other tricks with Google include searching for specific url content by using the parameter "allinurl:" and combining the same with the parameter "site:" to search for specific pages or even filetypes on a specific site.

If you want to get really crafty, try a search for allinurl

asswd.txt You'd be amazed just how many sites have user access info wide open to anyone who knows how to look for it.

Sites with index browsing enabled are also fun to dig around in. By doing a search for the specific text "Index of /" (including the quotation marks) you will pull up innumerable pages of index browsing-active pages. Honing in your search by looking for such things as "Index of /cgi-bin" can yield more interesting results.

Bear in mind that I am not actually advocating hacking into other people's sites or online accounts or any such thing, but the above info is assuredly known and used by those with a more malicious bent than I, and if you have an online business it can't hurt to see if you can dig up stuff like that on your own operation.

A very interesting resource for other Google hacks and tricks is here. Use responsibly.


Phaedrus