(Use at your own risks)
(Some pages are not stickied because can be used about illegal issues
)Search lore mirrors
http://www.fravia.com/ (Switzerland)
http://search.lores.eu/ (Germany)
http://searchlores.org/ (Germany)
http://fravia.2113.ch/ (Switzerland)
http://searchlores.thecastsite.com/ (USA)
http://www.phiral.net/searchlores/index.html (USA)
http://searchlores.telegenetic.net/ (USA) (OBSOLETE; NOW ON PHIRAL.NET)
http://crazyboy.com/fravia/searchlores.org/ (USA)
Snapshots: http://mirror.search.lores.eu/
searchlore.org @ Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.searchlores.org
And a little present:
http://www.searchlores.org/cgi-bin/search
Web Searching
The Seeker's windrose
Web Translation
Google-ex machine translation lore
File hosting and searching
The Shallow Deep Web searching
Image searching
Image searching
Golden rules of searching
Yahoo!/Inktomi's search syntax
Search engine operators
The "Powerbrowsing" guide
Learning to transform questions into effective queries
Search Engines Anti-Optimization
Music searching
RABBITS & WEBBITS
LAWS AND WEBBITS
Search a missing page ("When your search fails")
Netcraft site search
Follow Links in the Underground
The wild side of Google
How to search the web, using "Fuzzy Logic"
Serendipity (or how I figured out an easy way to search Google's cache)
Searching scarcity
Searching the Internet For Historical Information
The GOOGLE lore
The YAHOO! lore
FTP search engines
IRC search engines
USENET search engines
P2P search engines
metasearch engines
EVALUATE!
Trolling for informations
Stalking techniques
Stalking tools
Stalking trough images
Luring techniques
Wolf in sheep's clothing
Long term searching: rules and advice
Short term searching: tips
"free" (sic) email repositories
Local, specialized and specific search lore
Webrings searching
The "combing" search strategy
The importance of Webrings for combing purposes
Seeker's tools
Live searches display
Accmail techniques
The art of guessing
E-Books/Text searching
PDF global research
The Seeker's library
books & books & dark riders
Searching for dvds and dvd Information
The lore of names
How to fetch decent & recent (& old) news
1. The epanaleptical approach
2. The synecdochical searching method
3. The YO-YO technique
How to search the Web: The concept (never finished guide)
Surreal5's Search tips
Robin hood's search lessons
Fravia's own lessons (5)
Fravia's own lessons (6)
Fravia's own lessons (7)
Fravia's own lessons (8)
Fravia's own lessons (9)
Fravia's own lessons (10)
Searching bots lore
What can I do with bots?
robots.txt example
A simple REBOL scanner ("ways to retrieve hidden files, pages, zips, images")
Looking behind the curtains of server side scripts ("ways to retrieve sources of ASP & PHP scripts")
Feed the search engines with synonyms
Getting the SIZE of the search engines
The weird ways of searching and the weird findings
Getting a list of ALL the IPs that are hosted at the -say- Isle of Man
Spelunking altavista's acronyms
What search engines don't index and why?
How to fetch decent & recent (& old) news
Newspaper search
Statistical Data searching
Databases searching galore
The amazing flying wizards (How a bunch of leet seekers enters databases)
Fravia's GOFATE
The last luck to find MP3s
Kmart's searching tips
Snooz metasearch tool (syntax translation, regional metasearching, Javascript)
How to search: The phf exploit
Searching an image without knowing its name
FREEing up a Search Engine
The "index +of" seekers' trick (some web-searching knowledge, worked out and folded toghether)
Web-searching Session @ Hal2001
how to find - and link to - any EU-document (v1) [OBSOLETE]
how to find - and link to - any EU-document (v2) [OBSOLETE]
The search for 009
Ebook webbits ~ an unabridged discussion
The importance of persistence: a case study
Exploring eCommerce websites backed by GeoTrust
Bookmarklets: Weapons for the seeker
Fravia's quick search forms
Javascript bookmark tricks
An essay on identifying and getting ahold of fonts
Journals and scientific articles searching
Maps searching
Video/Audio lore
Citations searching
"Scholars" (University level essays) searching
How to search MP3s using IRC+Opera
Loki on Yahoo's filter - a short pointer
Bypassing Google's geotargeting
The lore of (dinosauria) researching
How to host files on free services
You'll find ANY software whatsoever on the web
Security lore
The Anonymity lore
How to Obscure Any URL
Staying Anonymous in 2002
IRC anonymity
How to walk the 'net without kicking yourself later...
Software engineering
Available soon!
Fravia's workshop of mines (various subjects)
21 October 2006: Lecture @ the Hack.lu, Luxembourg
Talk: How to find anything underneath the commercial web: Powersearching without google
(http://search.lores.eu/Luxembourg_2006.htm)
(http://2010.hack.lu/index.php/Main_Page)
16-18 June 2006: Recon talk in Montreal
Talk: "Reversing our searching habits (Power searching without google)"
(http://search.lores.eu/reversing_our_se ... .htm#intro)
(http://www.archive.org/details/Fravia_R ... out_google)
(http://www.recon.cx/)
29 December 2005: Berlin, Germany: 22C3: Private Investigations
Talk: "Private investigations in searching How to find any book (and many other roadkills) on the Information Super-Highway"
and
"Private investigations for curious web-seekers: techniques, tools and magic tricks"
(http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahr ... _3.en.html)
(http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahr ... 08.en.html)
(http://events.ccc.de/2006/04/21/gentlem ... r-clients/)
(http://search.lores.eu/private.htm#intro)
14-17 September 2005: Helsinki, Finland: Kutsu puhujaksi T2-konferenssiin
Talk: "The web: bottomless cornucopia & immense garbage dump"
and
"FFF wizardry: Finding Forbidden Fruits"
(http://www.t2.fi)
(http://search.lores.eu/Helsinki_.htm)
17-19 June 2005, Montreal, Canada: Recon talk in montreal: "Wizard searching: reversing the commercial web for fun and knowledge"
(http://search.lores.eu/Montreal_2005.htm)
(http://www.archive.org/search.php?query ... conference)
(http://www.archive.org/details/Recon2005_Fravia)
20-21 April 2005: Dublin, Irland
Netsoc talk at the Trinity college: "Basic wizard web-searching".
(http://search.lores.eu/conference_in_dublin.htm)
27-19 December 2004: 21C3 at Berlin, Germany
Talk: "How to find *anything* on the Web Advanced internet searching strategies & "wizard seeking" tips"
(http://events.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahr ... _3.en.html)
(http://search.lores.eu/berlin2004.htm)
20 May 2004, London: A Workshop at the Ravensbourne college
Talk: "Searching the web and searching images in the aera of copyright terror or How to find everything and then some"
With Richard Stallman and Cory Doctorow
(http://search.lores.eu/london2004.htm)
(http://www.archive.org/details/copyrightvscommunity)
(http://www.archive.org/details/copyrigh ... ity_fravia)
October 2004, Paris: "Images finding on the web as art and passion ~ Advertisement debunking"
Talk: "Searching and understanding an image without knowing its name and purpose "The chick on the river", an autumnal small assignment",
and
"What do we sell?"
and
"The head of the crab"
and
"The quiet harbour"
(http://search.lores.eu/source2.htm)
(http://search.lores.eu/carocolo.htm)
(http://search.lores.eu/revenge.htm)
(http://search.lores.eu/quietharbour.htm)
28 February 2003, London: A Workshop at the Ravensbourne college
Talk: "Wizard Web search techniques: how to find anything (and any image whatsoever) on the web"
(http://search.lores.eu/london/london.htm)
(http://search.lores.eu/london/lea2tra.htm)
(http://www.archive.org/details/websearching)
30 December 2002, Berlin: A Session at the 19C3
Talk: "How to find anything on the web"
(http://events.ccc.de/congress/2002/fahr ... 43.en.html)
(http://events.ccc.de/congress/2002/index.en.html)
(http://search.lores.eu/berlin.htm)
17 February 2002, Brussels: A workshop with Richard Stallman
Talk: "Advanced Web searching approaches" (FOSDEM 2002 - ULB)
(http://search.lores.eu/fosdem.htm)
11 August 2001, Holland: A great session at HAL 2001
Talk: Web wizard searching techniques, anti-advertisement galore and software reversing tricks
(http://www.searchlores.org/hal2001/)
(http://fravia.com/hal2001/index.htm)
February 2001, Paris, France: Conference at the Ecole polytechnique
Talk: The art of information searching on today's Internet
(http://fravia.com/paris/paris.htm)
October 2000, Milan, Italy: First workshop with Richard Stallman
Talk: The art of information searching for the open culture aera
(http://fravia.com/milano/milano.htm)