Afew tips in finding links on requested programmes.
Here are a few tips and tricks to finding links using popular search engines such as Google.com and Yahoo.com. Some are pretty advanced wheras others are more or less simple.
To help newcomers to alluc.org I have added difficulty ratings next to each trick or tip to allow you to choose which one you would prefer. All of these techniques require basic knowledge of computers and teh internet and just a drop of common sense.
Technique One: Google Basic Operators| Rating: Easy
If someone has requested a specific series you can easily use Google.com or another search engine to find links. For example, if you wanted to find episodes of 'House' you would type in:
'' 'House' Episode '' This will search for websites containing the text 'House Episode (1, One, E01, S01E01)'
More advanced search strings can include the following. This can be useful when searching for specific Seasons, or Episodes:
'' 'House' S01 E01 '' Common variations can be used here aswell, such as 'Season 1, Episode 1' and so on.
Technique Two: Google Advanced Operators | Rating: Intermediate
Google operators are advanced strings of text that can be included within the search box, these will affect the search results in certain ways. The most popular, and useful ones for searching for links included:
allinurl:
If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the url.
allintitle:
If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title.
site:
If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. For instance, [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within
www.google.com. [help site:com] will find pages about help within .com urls. Note there can be no space between the "site:" and the domain.
Using the [site:] operator is particulary useful when searching for links. An example of this in use can be:
'House site:youtube.com' - Searches for House links in youtube.com
'House site:youtube.com and dailymotion.com' - Searches for House links within the websites Youtube.com and Dailymotion.com
More specific searches can also be carried out when looking for specific episodes or seasons:
'House episode 1 site:youtube.com and dailymotion.com' - The final result comes up with:
YouTube - House - 3.03
House is on hiatus because the wolrd series, and will be back on oct. ... from episode 3.03 - "Informed Consent" part 1 -
http://www.dailymotion.com/. ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=82LR09K3hz0 - 84k - Cached - Similar pages
Although this is not what you searched for it has shown you a user that has uploaded an episode of House. Clicking on the User's name on
www.youtube.com will redirect you to a list of all their videos.
Technique Three: Uploading Youtube Users | Rating: Easy
It is certainly likely that if a user has uploaded one episode of a certain series that there will be more episodes to follow. To see if they have submitted any other episodes check out their user area.
Clicking on the user's name will normally work aswell.
In a user's space you have access to external links, extra episodes and groups. External links may take you to their blogs, websites and so on, where they may have uploaded various episodes. Extra episodes an be seen in their 'Video Section'. The user may have entered groups dedicated to a specific Tv-Show or series, clicking here will show you quite a fewlinks and episodes.
Technique Four: User Comments | Rating: Easy
If you find a video of a certain episode, but cannot find anymore from the specific user try reading through a few of their comments as they often post links to other sources, episodes and websites.
Example wrote:
Susan says: Where can I find the rest Season 2!? I love this show so much!
Bob says: Dunno, but it's so great!
Fred says: This user has loads of great links:
http://www.youtube.com/userXXXX/groupXXXX.htm Susan says: Wow! Thanks Fred, I also found a great blog with a few episodes on:
www.myvideolinksblog.com Technique Five: Search Plugins | Rating: Easy
This may require Mozzila Firefox 2.1. I'll be using
www.dailymotion.com for this example, so make sure you are pretty familiar wit the site, it's layout and how it functions first.
If you have the built in search box with your browser, it will most likely be highlighted in blue when you access the home page of dailymotion.com. Click on the button your browser has highlighted and a list of recommended search engines will appear. Clicking on them will add them to your browsers search engine plugin allowing you to search that particular website anywhere.
This can be used with most websites now.
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