I have been always fascinated to search on the net and mostly I do it with Google and I often find it a challenge to get to the exact resource I want while searching.
What I have learned from the last few years is that you should know the art of searching like what key words to use and what type of contents you want there a number of factors involved for effective searching and they are the type of keywords, the search strategies or combination's and using the advance search option
It has become and challenge for everyone to do an effective search.
When ever I did a search suppose if I am looking for a document type file while I was searching I need to specifically mention the .doc string then it will search all the .doc files and list and like wise for every format.
While I was going through various sites searching for some paper I could get all the combination's(in different formats like ppt, doc, xls etc and I need to search and choose from them and since it list all the available matches in the server this was very huge so I wanted to figure out some way I can do to get the information I require for a particular format and for a particular time I had to learn the advance search feature and do the needful and since I have been doing them for a long time it is easy for me to do that and get the required result.
But when I think of those people who access internet or search on internet occasionally I feel they have to spend a lot of time to search for the desired file type and when there is little time then some times they might miss it out and this specially happens when a student or a research scholar has little time.
As I was browsing through the net I have come across a search engine which is released few months back and is targeted amongst the students/colleges/ research scholar etc from my understanding and I found it very useful and it saves a lot of time. It happened for me and I just want to share it with you all.
The search engine is called as filedigg and can be viewed on http://www.filedigg.com
I would like to list down what all one can do in this search engine.
This is a customized search enabled site which in turn uses Google search to make search simpler and easier and time saving.
This has a search text box with a combo list box to choose which is actually a Real Time Search field and has values to choose from like Recently, Past 24 Hours, Past Week, Past Month, Past Year, Anytime so that your search results are very few and accurate to choose from.
The specialty of this search engine which the owners claim as search made simpler is that you have the option of choosing to list all the files of a particular format.
The formats they offer are doc, pdf, xls, ppt and flash.
The reason for me to tell that search made simpler because if I am wanting to give a ppt presentation and when I do a search using this radio button all the files related to my search criteria is listed and that to of ppt format so that it will be easy for me to just copy past those ppt slides rather than going through the site pages and trying to extract the information and then putting into a presentation, but by this now I save a lot of time and the search result is accurate as that of Google.
This is because this search engine uses google search and it is customized in this format.
This is really helpful for students/teachers/marketing people or people who require ready made data in a particular format and also for research scholars and not only to them but to all who do search.
Finally I would like to say that try using filedigg and experience the difference and I would say that you too would agree with me in saying search made simpler.
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| Author: Gladstone 20 Aug 2009 | Member Level: Bronze Points : 2 |
Further to add to the above description there is something called qualitative learning.
Lets say you are going to learn a new topic. Best way to do is digg/search a PPT on the topic from filedigg.
Go through the ppt with simple bulleted point descriptions....
And if you are looking for a more qualitative information. Go for filedigg education search where you can digg documents/search for information from educational universities all over the world.
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| Author: Kiran 20 Aug 2009 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 1 |
Yes and there are lots of other features like image search, video search and much more. there is a lot to explore and by doing it one can appreciate this search engine
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| Author: Gladstone 08 Sep 2009 | Member Level: Bronze Points : 1 |
More Information on FileDigg Education.
http://filedigg.blogspot.com/2009/09/search-worlds-top-100-universities.html
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| Author: Gladstone 07 Nov 2009 | Member Level: Bronze Points : 1 |
Some new improvements have come to FileDigg.
Try out the new FileDigg AJAX Search. Results will be displayed as you type in. No need to click on submit or press Enter button.
www.ajax.filedigg.com
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