Sunday, April 12, 2009

USE GOOGLE FOR DIRECT DOWNLOADS INSTEAD OF TORRENTS

Torrents are fun.Downloading from torrents however has a negative side. The download speed may be capped, there are port forwarding issues. Upload is mandatory and you may not have a good seeders to peers ratio.

Using G2P.org (a take on P2P - stands for Google-to-peer) allows you to search the web (via Google) for files you want. The concept behind it is simplicity itself - it uses special search operators to search Google for files you want in openly listed directories on Apache servers.

So you can search for songs, ebooks, softwares etc using G2P and get direct downloads! G2P is not a search engine but simply a front end to one which makes searching for ’stuff’ easier. The data is hosted on by others listed in open directories; you may or may not find what you’re looking for. But for one off cases where you need to download something quickly without bothering about finding seeds .