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Quick tutorial on using the major search engines to find flash files.
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A girl in my office is addicted to flash files. She was looking for a particular flash file the other day but couldn't find it on the internet. She asked me how to search for flash files and only flash files.
Google:
Use the filetype command with google to search for flash files. Here's me looking for street fighter in flash format:
Using our previous google tricks looking for open directories, you can also search for open directories that contain flash files like this:
Yahoo:
Yahoo has the ability to do similiar searches with the originurlextension command. Here I search for clones of the famous game breakout:
MSN Search:
Boo for MSN search as it supports a filetype command, but it doesn't work with flashfiles. For example, this will return nothing:
Using the contains command works better and is pretty effective. Here I use MSN Search to find flash asteroid games:
However, you can still use our searching for open directories tricks to find indexes filled with flash files:
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