Rapidshare, as you might know, is a popular file hosting service . According to Wikipedia, it hosts 5 petabytes of files on its servers. You can find a lot of stuff there, like, movies, videos, wallpapers etc.
While there are a huge number of files hosted on Rapidshare, finding and locating them isn’t a breeze. And hence there are different kinds of Rapidshare search engines available. But there is a problem in most of them. They display old results and also display the links that are broken.
CrawlRapidShare (UPDATE: Looks the site is no longer functional) is a useful search engine which indexes all the files of Rapidshare in real time. It can also check and tell you whether the links are valid (you have to check the box below search box saying “check links validity”). This tool promises to give you fresh results.
It displays last 200 searches on the home page which gives you an idea about what people are searching on Rapidshare.
As you can see in the screenshot below, the search results include file size and link validity. These two features help it differentiate itself from other similar tools.
Features
- Crawls and indexes Rapidshare files in real time.
- Checks the validity of links.
- Results display file size next to the name of the file.
Check out CrawlRapidShare to search files on Rapidshare in real-time.
