Claire's Random Thoughts

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For those of you who don’t know what Demonoid is, it is a site with a large index of torrents. Torrents are a P2P protocol used to share data, usually large files. For more information on Demonoid, check out the Wikipedia page, and for more information on torrents, click here. They are supposed to have the best selection of files of all torrent indexes, and their registration is extremely limited, maybe so it will seem like they are more exclusive. It is very rare for their registration to be open publicly as it is now, so if you are interested in an account, sign up before it’s too late!

So, you’ve been dying to download a particular file (of any kind) but just can’t find it anywhere on the internet. This happens to me quite frequently now that I’m living in a college dorm, because the school’s connection blocks torrent connections (as many college campuses do) which rules out major option for my downloads. How do I get a file that I’m dying to download but can’t use a torrent for now? I search megaupload’s index. You can do this with other file hosting sites too. Megaupload is just a personal preference.

All you have to do is use google’s within site search code. site:domain.com keywords searches google’s index just in the domain specified. So, I can type in site:megaupload.com file i want, and google will search megaupload’s index for it. For example, I missed Heroes tonight (or technically last night) and wish to watch it, because I’ve followed every episode so far and don’t want to be lost later.

Simple, isn’t this? Unfortunately, this method will only work if someone has actually uploaded the file you want to megaupload (or whatever file sharing site you’re using), duh. It’s not a 100% complete index with files you want, and it’s probably more limited with larger files due to upload size limits on the megaupload server. But still, it beats nothing when torrents are disabled here. I guess you could also try site:rapidshare.com keywords as another good alternative if you can’t find a particular file you’re searching for on megaupload.