Rapidshare is very well known for its extensive database of files that are being shared. There are tons of better file sharing services out there than Rapidshare, but I think the only reason it is staying alive is because of the extreme amounts of cracks, warez, movies, and all sorts of other illegal items being hosted on the service.
One thing that Rapidshare has always stayed clear of is implementing a search engine so that people can easily find files that have already been uploaded. There are a few sites that have tried to implement their own Rapidshare search engine, such as Rapidshare-Search-Engine, and they have all been a little unsuccessful. What I’ve resulted to in the past is doing Google searches in this format:
The portion before the parenthesis is the program, movie, or name of what you’re looking for on Rapidshare. The two items in the parenthesis tell Google to look for sites that are linking to Rapidshare files. This type of searching has also come in handy when I’ve been looking for older versions of applications that are no longer available.
A new site, called Rapidshare1, has been created to crawl the web looking for all of the Rapidshare links that are being posted. It then aggregates them into a central database so that you can easily search for the files that you want. Is it successful? I wasn’t all that impressed with the results it returned for some of the common searches I did. A search for Excel pulled in results for all kinds of off-the-wall items, which led me to believe that their database is still extremely limited. I think I’ll be sticking with Google for my Rapidshare searches.
Note: We’re not condoning piracy, it’s just a well known fact that Rapidshare is the home to thousands of illegal downloads.
Source: HongKiat
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If you dont want to make google adwords angry i’d change the example search to something a bit more safe.
I don’t think Google will penalize me. It’s not like I’m saying to go buy the movie, after all there are also trailer videos available. The only reason I used that for the name was because it was so specific that the results it returned were good.
Try this google query:
[ratatouille site:rapidshare.com/files OR site:rapidshare.de/files]
That’s the same query that I did, except without the parenthesis. I realize it does the same thing, but adding the parenthesis in makes it easier to understand.
Hello,
I’m the developper of rapidshare1.com and franceradio.net , I just want to explain something: it’s true that we use a database to stocks links, but on rapidshare1.com there is no database, evry think is on google!
…and
I know that when you search something there are off-theme on results, I’ll try to fix that next weeks…
thank you… and sorry for my very poor english..
Can’t wait to see your improvements.
your forget rapidlibary.com
this guys have bigger base than rapidshare1, faster search process and more relevant search results
Thanks for pointing that out! It’s definitely one of the best that I’ve used in terms of relevant results that are produced.
http://totme.com is the better.. Because, it no needs google results and you can search all rapidshare links by categories.. also no more dead links and password problems.
yeah it is perfect..