by Kyle G. Mork

Rapidshare is one of the most popular file hosting websites that is being used by many users to upload and distribute files on the Internet. The popularity of the file hosting website and the fact that it provides both uploads and downloads free of charge to all users are the reasons why it has become such a popular file hosting website.

This kind of massive resource can be very difficult to tap for the inexperienced, but search engines are a valuable tool for accomplishing this task.

Files can be uploaded by all users to Rapidshare. An account is not required and the upload option is shown directly on the homepage of the file hoster. Accessing that option will walk the user through the easy upload process.

From there, they get a link back to the download page for their file, and are then able to share it with their friends, or their company, or whomever they intended to distribute the file to. But when large-scale distribution comes into play, we begin dealing with search engines and other such tools.

Search engines can be used to find files that have been uploaded to Rapidshare. One of the most basic forms of searching Rapidshare on search engines is to enter the term Rapidshare and a phrase afterwards. While this will find a few files that are hosted at the file hoster it will also turn up many results that are no longer working or hosted on other files.

There is however a better solution to this problem by utilizing specialized search engines that search specifically for files hosted on Rapidshare. These sites actually contribute heavily to the search results on the search engines.

The sheer bulk of specialized Rapidshare search engines is stunning at first, and many are rather serviceable. If one were to input the Google query “rapidshare search”, many such sites would turn up, enough to make it impractical to list. Unlike Google, which has a massive architecture designed to effectively search the entire internet, these sites use a different strategy to serve the needs of Rapidshare searchers.

Their search bots concentrate solely on finding links that are pointing to files on Rapidshare by harvesting search engines and sites that collect those links. These sites then list information like file names about each link discovered and check them to ensure the file is still hosted at Rapidshare before presenting the results to the user.

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