How to use Google for fast P2P

AN INSTRUCTIONAL video posted to YouTube has been offering a primer on how to use Google to nick music and video files in less time than it takes to download them from a P2P site.

The Financial Times has got its knickers in a twist after discovering a a 21 year old called Jimmy Ruska has posed the video which shows how to direct Google's search engine to locate files from unprotected computer systems.

The FT says that Ruska's formula worked at Yahoo and other search engines.

The nine-minute long video shows that the trick is focus a search on certain keywords, which will weed out spam and other unwanted results.

Matt Cutts, the engineer in charge of the quality of search results at Google, said that the video was pants as it was just an attempt to find web pages containing a list of files including the word MP3. Nothing to see here move on please.

However it does show the sorts of Google search code that many punters do not know about. That is until the FT told them about the clip. µ