Take your google searches to next level

Standard Google.com search is ok. Sometimes though, results can be too generic. There are many tricks and "google hacks" to get this vast search engine to do more for you. I'll cover a few easy ones.

Add " forum:" into your search text.

Example: Forum: red pants
This tells Google to look into forum type websites more aggressively. Since a lot of info and questions are discussed on forums and there are literaly thousands of forums on the inter webs, you can get more unique search hits.
Very useful when tyring to find info on PC problems, Car problems, or medical advice. These types of subjects are often discussed in depth on forums.

Find a MP3
use this search string: "?intitle:index.of?" followed by name
Example. ?intitle:index.of? Journey
Results will list mp3's of that name. Useful for finding one song that may be stuck in your head. You can't always download it, since that is illegal. However, you can listen to it.

Find software ISO's or exe's
Use string : " inurl:***** filetype:iso"
Example : inurl:office filetype:iso
Example : inurl: adobe filetype:exe
Place name of software in between "inurl" and "filetype". Change last part to ISO or EXE as needed. ISO' s are Disk images hat can be burned to disk easily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image