Searching for specific terms in indexed documents on the Web is something many searchers fail to do. It is amazing what you can find when you go looking for it. I’ve written about searching by file type before. Now I have found a search engine for .pdf, .doc, and .ppt files.
OSUN.ORG
OSUN.ORG provides a simple interface for searching PDF documents, MSWord documents, and PowerPoint files. The large search engines allow one to search more file types and you must search one file type at a time using OSUN.ORG as you do in Google. I don’t know what database this search engine uses, but it doesn’t compare very well with Google. A search for my name in PDF files give 52 results in Google and only 9 in OSUN.ORG. This is not a good performance.
Sometimes it’s really hard to find an alternative to the big three search engines.
Hi Rick:
From your post about osun.org…
>The large search engines allow one to search more file types and you must search one file type at a time using OSUN.ORG as you do in Google<
I may be missing something, but when I tell Google to search filetype:pdf OR filetype:ppt it searches for both filetypes (i.e. not limited to one file type at a time.
Cordially,
Ted Swift
ACM Research Service
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