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Google Drive allows creation of public folders. The idea is to let people share content with others without having to send invitation or requiring them to login to their respective Google accounts.
If you use Google Drive, you must already know this.
What you might not have been aware is that these public folders are searchable on the web. That’s right. All those open content have been crawled by Google’s spiders and neatly indexed in a file somewhere on their servers.
To find a public Google Drive folder, copy and paste the following query into the Google’s search field:
You can combine the “site” parameter with other queries. For instance,
will show you all public Google Drive folders with MP3 files. Replace “MP3” with “MP4” or “AVI” and you’ll find folders containing videos. You can also search for “books” or “PDF” or “DOC”.
If you use Google Drive, you must already know this.
What you might not have been aware is that these public folders are searchable on the web. That’s right. All those open content have been crawled by Google’s spiders and neatly indexed in a file somewhere on their servers.
To find a public Google Drive folder, copy and paste the following query into the Google’s search field:
site:https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=You can combine the “site” parameter with other queries. For instance,
mp3 site:https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=will show you all public Google Drive folders with MP3 files. Replace “MP3” with “MP4” or “AVI” and you’ll find folders containing videos. You can also search for “books” or “PDF” or “DOC”.
