100+ Alternative Search Engines You Should Know

Google is the most powerful search engine available, but when it comes to searching for something specific, Google may churn out general results for some. For instance, a search for a song in Google may return the singer, the lyrics and even fan sites – depending on the keywords you entered.

This is when niche-specific search engines comes into the picture. These search engines allows you to search for the things you’re looking for, and because they are more focused, their results tend to be more accurate.

E-books & PDF files, audio & music, videos, etc. are probably the most commonly searched items everyday and with this list, you’ll be able to locate them easily from now on. Enjoy!

E-Book & PDF Search Engine

PDF Searcher

Pdf Searcher is a pdf and ebook search engine. You can search and download every ebook or pdf for free!

PDFGeni

PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF ebooks, sheets, forms and documents.

Data-Sheet

Data-Sheet is a pdf ebook datasheet manual search engine where you can search any ebook datasheet pdf files and download.

PDFDatabase

PDF Database is a new search engine which uses a unique algorithm to search for pdf and doc files from all over the web quickly and efficiently.

PDF Search Engine

PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files.

Who-sells-it.com (The catalog search engine) – Who-sells-it.com is an automated search engine for product catalogues. You can find products and product information within the catalogs and brochues.
AddAll – AddALL is a free service that searches for the best deal in books anywhere on-line.
BookFinder – A one-stop ecommerce search engine that searches over 150 million books for sale—new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks. .
Boocu – Access thousands of eBooks and other digital products.
Brupt – Brupt.com is based on Google Custom Search Engine, it uses Filetype parameters offered by Google to filter the information and show the pages according.
CCEbook – A free ebook search engine, find rapidshare/mihd/ebooks by search.
ComicSeeker – Search the Internet’s most popular online comic book stores and auctions.
DocJax – DocJax.com is a search engine for documents, which allow you to search documents and e-book from everywhere, preview them and even download them for free.
Docstoc – All documents on docstoc can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded for free.
Ebook-Search-Engine – Ebook-Search-Engine.com was established to make finding an free ebook on the internet alot easier by providing visitors with the best quality free ebook sites and pages on the web.
Ebookee – Free download ebooks search engine.
Flazx – This is a well organized and searchable eBook Directory..
FeedBooks – A universal e-reading platform compatible with all mobile devices where you can download thousands of free e-books.
Gigle.ws – A PDF search engine with 1 150 000+ items indexed.
Google Books – Find the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you.
Issuu – Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.
LazyLibrary – LazyLibrary, where you can find books on any topic without having to worry about high page counts..
Myplick – Myplick is a free service that lets you share, embed and discover presentations and slide shows online.
Printfu – Search engine for free ebooks.
PDFster – PDFster.net is a meta search engine for PDF documents.
PDFSe – User can search for an ebook by entering a book title,author name or topic
PDF-Search.org – A book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf, word, power point files.
Scribd – Scribd is a social publishing site, where tens of millions of people share original writings and documents.
Search-PDF-Books – PDF search engine for free PDF books.
The-Manuals – Search engine for free manual online.
TooDoc – Through this search engine, you’ll be able to search the web for PDF files, and nothing else. .
Yudu – Explore the Library to find magazines, newspapers, eBooks and more. Over 1 million publications read each month..

Audio/Music Search Engine

BeeMp3

BeeMP3 is a music search engine for locating an mp3-audio files over the Internet. Today they have 800 000 mp3 files in our search database and approximately 10 000 files are added daily.

MP3Realm

Mp3Realm is an evolving search engine focused distinctively on audio in Mp3 format. Mp3Realm allows you to search for your favorite songs and clips, and filter them out by file duration. Your searches can be based on artist, title, genre or album. Mp3Realm also index’s lyrics, so you can sing along to your favorite songs.

WuZam

WuZAM’s powerful engine allows users to search for free music downloads from all over the internet. Unlike P2P programs, you don’t have to wait for users to upload the file to you. Many of the free music downloads found on WuZAM are stored on high speed servers so your free mp3 downloads are quick and flawless.

SKreemR

SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. SkreemR currently indexes over 6 million mp3 files from over 100,000 web sites.

FindSounds

FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples.

AirMP3 – AirMP3 is a music search engine. It searches for free mp3 downloads on several music sites, and lists all results on a single page.
CaptainCrawl – A very massive music blog search engine.
DesMP3 – Listens the music that you want all is in DesMp3! Search in 500 million results.
Dilandau – In Dilandau.com you can listen and download all your MP3 music.
Dorble – Dorble is another application that lets you search, listen and download music you like to your computer for free.
Gig-Listing – Gig Listing is an independent web search engine for live music events. You can look for music events, bands or venues by typing a few keywords in a text box.
HuntMyMusic – HuntMyMusic is primarily a music search engine that provides a convenient way for users to find, preview, and download songs.
Liveplasma – Liveplasma is a new way to broaden your cultural horizons according to your taste in music.
MP3Raid – Mp3Raid.com is dedicated to provide its visitors the best mp3 search engine on the net.
Mix Turtle – Web-based music search tool Mix Turtle creates playlists of songs you find online.
MP3-Search Engine – A comprehensive MP3 search engine.
Muscorch – Music Score Search Engine, searching for free music score in various formats.
MusicBiatch – MusicBiatch is a music search engine designed for locating an audio files in various file sharing and uploading sites.
Musgle – To see Musgle in action just type a song title, or the artist name, or both in a search bar and hit ‘Enter’ – you will be redirected to the Google page with relevant search results
Midomi – Midomi is the ultimate music search tool because it is powered by your voice.
MP3Search.Mobi – Your free music search engine.
MP3Fountain – Download Hip-Hop mp3. Download Hip-Hop music.
MP3Series – The Ultimate Audio Search Engine
OOnly – Free MP3 search engine.
SharingMusics – Audio, mp3 and music search engine.
Songza – Songza lets you listen to any song or band. Search for it.
SeekMP3 – SeekMp3 is worth a try. SeekMp3 is an Mp3 search engine, pure and simple. Music is pulled from all over the web—blogs, music sites, personal websites, etc.
SeekASong – Mp3s and lyrics search engine.
Woonz – Woonz crawls the internet for audio tracks and then provides the information here for you to listen, download, or find out more about audio that you are interested in.

Video Search Engine

blinkx

blinkx is the world抯 largest and most advanced video search engine. blinkx pioneered video search on the Internet, developing an engine based on technology.

VideoSurf

VideoSurf has created a better way for users to search, discover and watch online videos. VideoSurf抯 computer vision video search engine provides more relevant results and a better experience to let users find and discover the videos they really want to watch.

HelloMovies

HelloMovies helps you find a movie to watch. See what’s playing on Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, and more. Narrow your choices. Watch movies.

MetaTube

MetaTube is an easy way to browse 100 of the most popular video sharing sites around the world. The phenomenal benefit of MetaTube: You need to enter your search term just once for all 100 sites!

ClipBlast

ClipBlast! technology helps Viewers search, navigate, watch and personalize their experience with the Video Web, and helps Video Content Providers, Advertisers and Marketers monetize their investments.

clipblast

Cleepr – Cleepr, the music video search engine.
ChizMax – A music video search engine.
Google Videos – Search and watch millions of videos. Includes forum and personalized recommendations.
IsInvideo – IsInVideo.com is a search engine that provides real-time results as links to videos, developed by Javier Guillen from Malaga.
myMovo – The myMovo server provides it with the addresses of the media matching your search.
Nanocrowd – Nanocrowd has magical search algorithms that interpret comments people like you have written about movies.
Pixsy – The Pixsy Index is a massive library of video and image content that can be integrated into approved premium websites and applications.
Podscope – Podscope lets you search the spoken word for audio and video that interests you.
SearchForVideo – Searchforvideo.com is a leading video search engine that indexes online video clips from over 10,000 sources.
ScoopVid – Track down the most popular videos by the hour, day or even month. You can also search the web for video results.
Truveo – Truveo video search lets you search and find videos from across the Web.
Truveo – Search video across the Web.
VidSea – VidSea, short for Video Search is a vertical search engine specifically for searching Video clips on the Internet.
Vdoogle – This search engine will search for videos from popular video sharing websites like YouTube and Google Videos.

RapidShare Search Engine

Rapidshare-Search-Engine

Rapidshare-search-engine.com – Find any file on rapidshare.

RapidShare1

Rapidshare1.com is a Rapidshare search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for Rapidshare file links.

FilesPump

FilesPump.com is a search engine designed to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites. FilesPump is a "multi-hoster" search engine, and currently lists 16 different popular file hosters. As a file sharing search engine FilesPump.com finds files matching your search criteria among the files that has been seen recently in uploading sites by their search spider.

FileCrop

Search RapidShare and Megaupload files easy and fast. Over 3 millions files stored in database.

RSFind

RSFind.com, a powerful free rapidshare search engine, and one of the best search engines for rapid share.

Front Address – Search softwares, ebooks, games, photos, documents, audio and videos etc located on RapidShare.
FilesTube – FilesTube.com is a search engine designed to search files
in various file sharing and uploading sites,like rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire.
FileOnFire – This site gives users the chance to get a rapid share and mega upload search engine that has more than 19,000,000 files.
MegaDownload – MegaDownload.net – megaupload.com and rapidshare.com search engine.
MegaRapidSearch – MegaRapidSearch helps you to find anything on RapidShare.
Rapidsharesearch – Search Rapidshare with their Fast Online Search Engine. All files are automatically checked to insure what you’re looking for is there
Rapid4Shared – Rapid4shared.com search engine that provides results from a hand-selected list of sites.
RSearch – Rapidshare search engine with simple interface.
RapidShareData – RapidshareData.com is a test files search project objected to rapidshare.com.
RapidShareSearcher – A massive RapidShare search engine! With thousands of links, theres nothing you won’t be able to find!
RapidAll – RapidAll Rapidshare Download Search is a website that search files on the website hosts which have been upload by Rapidshare members for sharing with their friends, family or at forum sites.
RapidSearch.In – Free Search Engine for Rapidshare, Badongo, Sendspace, MediaFire and 4Shared Files.
RapidZearch – RapidZearch.com is a search engine to search on sites, forums, message boards for shared file links.
Rapidshare-Provider – Rapidshare search engine.
RarDir – A powerful RapidShare search engine.
Rapid TvPHP – A Rapidshare library with 1069578 files in their database.
ShareMiner – Using ShareMiner.com you can search Rapidshare, Megaupload and many other uploading sites and file hosting services.
ShareMiner – Using ShareMiner.com you can search Rapidshare with an easy to use interface.
TotMe – World’s Best Rapidshare Search Engine! 1,256,339 Rapidshare Link Available To Search!

Comments

mobz June 16th, 2009

Shareminer is awesome! thanks! great post
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Relax June 16th, 2009

Thanks for sharing… Mr Lim Hong Kiat :)
This post is super helpful!

~ your net friend :)
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Danh ba web 2.0 June 16th, 2009

Great list for me. I used PDFGeni for search PDF, BeeMp3 for Mp3 and VideoSurf for Video. Good job
See more SE in my blog: http://tr.im/oEnJ
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Tschai June 16th, 2009

A very handy list…thnx
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xea June 16th, 2009

Congratulations, Thank you for this awesome post!
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Dave June 16th, 2009

FilesPump – Last 200 Searches – “Dogging”

Hah hah!…
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Art Webb June 16th, 2009

Great List!!
I would also add http://tutsearch.net.

Thanks
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Maria June 16th, 2009

Fantastic list! Great post :) Thank you!
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blinkky June 16th, 2009

That’s really a lot of links. Where do you found those? Keep it =)
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Acer June 16th, 2009

What about social search engines, like http://www.junoba.com?
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Caimin June 16th, 2009

I agree with Acer – and what about job search engines like:

http://www.twitterjobfinder.com

http://www.twitterjobsearch.com

Great post, though.
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Kay June 17th, 2009

Glad that you all like it. :)

@ Acer : Social search engines are in our research list as well. We will put it up after we filter the list.
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LazyAndroid June 17th, 2009

Not listed is goear.com, it’s a good search engine for music.

And also when talking about “the most commonly searched items everyday”, why do you pretend pr0n doesn’t exist?
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Inna June 17th, 2009

Not listed dooblet, it’s a new search engine for finding alternatives:

http://dooblet.com
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web2000 June 17th, 2009

great list of 100-alternative-search-engines-you-should-know posted here. Thanks!
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Tom Duong June 17th, 2009

Wow! Awesome list of resources for search engine marketing. Definitely bookmarked for future reference. Thanks!
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J. L. June 17th, 2009

How about OVGuide for video search engine?
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Martin Dudek June 17th, 2009

Missing the great http://similicio.us and the not as great http://wectar.com (my baby)
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Semblance June 17th, 2009

Wow, this is something I have never looked into, I had not idea there are so many and more specified search engines out there. I have bookmarked this page. Thanks.
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iValueNews | Lee June 17th, 2009

There’s a huge list of search engines and I guess I will spend a few days time to digest all the search engines. haha..thanks for the compilation.
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Vim June 17th, 2009

Wow, i must be a noob, didn’t know most of these search engines exist, nice list, I’ll be trying some of these out soon, do you have to register to download from most of these, I’m assuming that you have to for the rapid share links?
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Ching Ya June 17th, 2009

I can predict, you’re gonna receive tons of compliments, and ‘fantastic posts’ ‘great list’ type of comments flooding in pretty soon. Can’t help it, gonna give you credit for going through the trouble, and enlighten us. Stumbled! Good job.

@wchingya
social media/blogging
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Karol Zielinski June 17th, 2009

nice list!
I didn’t know most of these search engines. Really good work!
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Altis Lo (Beaulife) June 17th, 2009

This is a real eye-opener list consisting cool alternatives search engines. Hong Kiat, you are simply awesome! Cheers!
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techxactdubai June 17th, 2009

wow nice post
it is very useful post
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Charmaine June 17th, 2009

Thanks, they are very informative and an eye-opener for newbies like me.
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John June 18th, 2009

not listed pepperoni mp3. it’s free mp3 search engine
http://pepperonimp3.com/
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Alam June 18th, 2009

from this list, it blow up my head !!!
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Yasmeen June 18th, 2009

This is really amazing, thank you so much for these great links…
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srikanth June 21st, 2009

amaging dude amaging u r really great dude wat a collection,i never seen and come across this kind of site never before. Keep going….
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Wuensch-Media June 21st, 2009

Absolutely Cool Search Engine List! Thanks!
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Ali June 23rd, 2009

Hi John! You can use http://pdfstack.com PDF Search Engine
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Tyg13 June 23rd, 2009

LOL Half of the metatube.com video searches are all porn related.

Us sick bastards :D
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Kenny June 23rd, 2009

Thanks for this great list!

Are there industry specific search engines out there? Something just for Engineers or Teachers or Doctors for example?
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timjone June 23rd, 2009

http://pdf-search.org is very good, it supports pdf, word, ppt.
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frojo June 29th, 2009

how could you leave out The Hype Machine for music searches? It’s the best around..

http://www.hypem.com
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Ashley Adams : Postcard Printing June 29th, 2009

This post will help many of us learn to look beyond Google and Yahoo. When it comes to searching on the Internet, we find ourselves surprisingly prejudiced. We tend to favor a handful of search engines and choose to ignore the rest. This list will help change that perspective.
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Ah Hong July 1st, 2009

I love the PDF search engine, better result that the one I get from Google
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Jan Kajander July 4th, 2009

The dominans of very few actors in any industry is dangerous.
There is more then google and microsoft…
Wonderful people doing this job to find all…

Thanks
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Al- Shahib W. July 4th, 2009

For rapidshare, Megaupload and other file hosting search engine, i’ve been using http://www.avun.com, Fast and clean design. No ads…
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John Capri July 7th, 2009

Thanks for sharing.You wouldnt say how some websites are helpful source of informations like this one.Thanks
John
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Harry July 15th, 2009

I would add Jinni under video search – their search functionality by mood and even specific story elements is pretty amazing.
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jan kajander July 17th, 2009

Yupp, its more then google and microsoft out there….
have a look corfu.t35.com!
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tim.jone July 19th, 2009

the best http;//www.pdf-search.org
http://www.pdfgeni.com
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Vector Man August 4th, 2009

Interesting listing! You open my eyes – i don know about this searches.
And what about search engine for pictures?..
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ClipsTrailers August 5th, 2009

Thanks for this great list! Plz add http://www.musicrockr.com, Mp4 song search engine.
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Global Wild Tours August 15th, 2009

Welcome for exciting safaris and tours around the world.Feel free to browse our site and send us a comment.We would love to hear from you.
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vkwave August 21st, 2009

ohhh that’s great & very much informative.
Vk like it thanks to share. :)
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free music :) August 28th, 2009

also try http://pepperonimp3.com/
i like it!
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villy August 31st, 2009

It is not a easy thing to search a delicious pdf paper. I have found a great paper search engine, that is http://www.paper-search-engine.com
　 It can quickly search any pdf paper. Additionally, this paper search engine provides abstract of every paper. All papers found also can be previewed and download directly, That’s so cool. I greatly appreciate it.
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Gumby September 5th, 2009

For File Host searching try

http://www.rapidexplorer.webs.com

Another good rapidshare search engine
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Black Hawk September 15th, 2009

Have a look also at http://www.hipfiles.com which search more than 15+ file hosting and uploading sites like RapidShare, MegaUpload, HotFile and etc. It returns all possible direct download links of pdf, ebook, movie, games, software, movie, music and many more.
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pdf-search-engine September 15th, 2009

there are so many pdf search engines. http://www.pdf-seek-engine.com is a good one.
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Jagdeesh September 24th, 2009

Hi, i have found one website http://www.findshared.com. Its simply like frontaddress.com. When i saw that which has only one file server (Rapidshare) and now its growing day by day with many file servers . so look them and give me feedback.
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kyle September 27th, 2009

i think http://www.iwantmuzik.com is probably the best mp3 search engine ever
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vijay October 8th, 2009

My suggestion for file search is http://www.findshared.com. It is good enough.
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Bollywood Mp3 Songs October 9th, 2009

lol ur list is amazing..I think u worked very hard to make this list :| and yeah it shows how much time u took on this post…Btw how did u come to know about all this??
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traveller October 15th, 2009

try this website

http://www.arabrapid.com

it search for files in rapidshare, megaupload, mediafire and in another 23 files hosting websites
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Suffolk Wedding Photographer October 15th, 2009

Great list thank you for sharing that.

http://www.patbweddingphotography.com/
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Beauty Photography October 15th, 2009

Wow I never knew there ware so many search engines out there!
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Labnol October 16th, 2009

I can say http://www.findshared.com is best among them.
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Agence web October 29th, 2009

great list, thank you
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haylet October 30th, 2009

You should try http://search4alive.com too :)
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Михаил November 5th, 2009

Химическая промышленость Китая.Продукты химической промышленности от китайских предприятий.
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Станислав November 5th, 2009

Поздравительные музыкальные открытки.Свадебные открытки с музыкой открытки выпущенные в Украине.
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crowncap November 16th, 2009

Give it a try!
http://rapidshare-search-engine.net
Huge Rapidshare Links Library
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sp November 25th, 2009

htto://www.sputtik.com
Sputtik Online System
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SEO system December 20th, 2009

Hello. I found a very easy to use and free SEO software ForOzik.com. It is worth noting where your page if you want to be in Google top 10
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Megafreshlinks December 21st, 2009

Hi,

Just to let you know my new megaupload search engine:

http://www.megafreshlinks.com

thanks for the add.
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Robin December 28th, 2009

Hi can you send me all the list of search engines to my mail id
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Ben Stokes January 14th, 2010

PDF searches could come in handy – thanks for the list
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kac-ani January 19th, 2010

You can try http://kac-ani.xt.pl/en/node/34
It’s java applet which searching links basing on filestube, clean and fast,
soon link checking function will be added.
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Cookie January 23rd, 2010

WOW great list!
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Cookie January 23rd, 2010

WOW great list!
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mp3 music search engine January 25th, 2010

Free music downloads! One of the largest Mp3 Search Engine on the internet providing millions of mp3 downloads.Mp3 Search Engine, Music Search Engine.
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Search zippyshare February 4th, 2010

Also one good one: fileseek.info – search zippyshare, rapidshare, 4shared, uploading.com and more.
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Files Bay February 5th, 2010

Why http://filesbay.net/ is not listed? FilesBay is new file search engine designed to search files in various file sharing hostings and torrent files.
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blebuy February 10th, 2010

did you forget to include product price search engines? it’s cool to line up similar products and compare their features.
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pdf search engine February 18th, 2010

if you search for Pdf files, try this website pdfdbase.com
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Kevin March 1st, 2010

wow… amazing list… although you left out some.
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SharpPDF March 5th, 2010

Another new document search engine. http://SharpPDF.com
it supported PDF, PPT, SWF, DOC, XLS and RTF file format
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nomi March 15th, 2010

http://www.ebookbyte.com

was established to make finding an free ebook to download on the internet alot easier by providing visitors with the best quality free ebook sites and pages on the web.
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Value My No Plate March 18th, 2010

Wow! Just found this article searching for the best rapidshare search engines but I love the fact you have the best searche engines for pdf’s, music etc. Brilliant article and very useful. Bookmarked, thanks for that
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