11 May, 2012

HOW TO FIND E-BOOKS AND PDF FILES USING GOOGLE

If you want to learn more about some subject or you are researching about something on internet ,then best way is to find free ebooks avaliable on subject and go through them.


 Also, most printed ebooks are also avaliable in various ebooks formats including .pdf , .chm , .cbr , .djvu and many more depending on your reader . So it is good idea to check the free version of book before buying its printed version.

There are many websites on internet where you can download free ebooks. If you can't find ebook anywhere , then google is a best tool to find any ebook .

You must use some special queries to find ebooks using google. Some of the best queris to find ebooks are listed below:

  • Use intitle search operator: intitle operater can be used if you want to search , only the html title tag (<title>) of the web page. for example below query is used to find only those web pages , that have the keyword apples in the title tag.
    
 intitle:apples:
        

We can use intitle operator to find the directory listing of web servers where ebooks are stored.  This is because the default html title for these contains the word index of. So if you want to find ebooks in .chm format which are published by syngress , then you will use following query....




Some more examples of using the intitle operator to find ebooks on google:

        intitle:index.of?chm health
      
        intitle:index.of?chm "Radiology for Dummies"

Thus , in short , you can use quey of this type to find ebooks on specific subject with a specific ebook format.

        intitle:index.of?file_extension book_info

  • Use allinurl search operator: allinurl operator can be used to restrict the search results to only those web pages contain the keyword in url . For example query below will listed only those web pages that have only apples in url .For example: www.bestapples.com , www.bestfruits.com/apples
           allinurl:apples

Now ,as google spider crawl the web also find ebooks . we can use allinurl to find ebooks as below:

         
allinurl: pdf "Radiology for Dummies"
  
The query will find all web pages that have the word pdf and the pharse "radiology for dummies" in url. And its possible you find ebook easily with this query.

  • Use google pharse search and +operator : You can use google double pharse to search find exactly  as you used . For instance , following query will show you web pages that have pharse "Radiology for dummies" exactly . 
          "Radiology for Dummies"

The + operator can be used only to find those that have contain the terms prefixed with + . No synonyms , only exact match . For example following query will find only those web pages which have word dummies in it and the word Radiology and words similar to radiology .

    Radiology for +Dummies 

Combining bith the pharses seacrh and +operator , you can find ebooks easily .

   +("index of") +("/ebooks"|"/ebook") +(chm | pdf | rar) +book_info


Hope this help you to find ebook easily that you are looking for. If you know any other method to find ebooks using google  , then comment below..................

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