I touched on this topic a long time ago with a post called Dude Wheres My Proxy?!?
But I wanted to show you guys another quick google dork to take that search to the next level:
This Google Query will return all proxy lists added to the index in the past month (or past week or whatever you want)
This is still not a perfect way to find new proxies to use, since the lists are public they are full of either outdated or dead or already flagged proxies. By using the date modifier in your google search, you can at least try to eliminate as many old outdated proxy lists as possible.
Run these through your proxy checker script and away you go!
Your proxy checker script. What would this do? Ping them all or something?
Attempt to use the proxy to do whatever you need to do. Go to some page that will run diagnostics so you'll know that it's not passing ur diagnostics. Quite simple.
Rob, your link to dude where's my proxy returns a 404.
Thanks for letting me know. It's this bloody text editor I'm using on this blog. It keeps reformatting all my links.
I HATE IT.
proxies are really hit and miss. I havent been able to find a decent one in a long time. I can't surf US only sites.