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Re: files sizes in searches

  • Subject: Re: files sizes in searches
  • From: John Bokma <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 27 Apr 2006 18:05:31 GMT
  • Newsgroups: alt.internet.search-engines
  • Organization: Castle Amber - software development
  • References: <1146153140.353862.182920@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <Xns97B278E99DEF6castleamber@130.133.1.4> <2137358.dxE28qFE4F@schestowitz.com>
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> __/ [ John Bokma ] on Thursday 27 April 2006 17:53 \__
> 
>> freewic@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings!
>>> 
>>> Is there an available option thru which, when searching for using
>>> "inurl:pdf", the link showing the search results include the pdf
>>> file size?
>> 
>> Suggest it to Google
> 
> Also to be aware (addendum): you can use filetype:pdf. It may be more
> reliable. The greedy approach would be to run a script which downloads
> all the results 1..100 (toy can use extensions like FlashGot in
> Firefox)

wget


advantage of inurl:pdf is that it shows stuff like:

http://example.com/our/secret/pdfs/

Index of /our/secret/pdfs

.... 
....
....
....

(Which does show the file size :-D )

(Yup, intitle:pdf intitle:"index of" is even more fun)


-- 
John

Google Suggest Perl script http://johnbokma.com/perl/google-suggest.html

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