Document search engine - find any document, article or manual in minutes!

Discussion in 'All Other Search Engines' started by shmekerosu, Sep 21, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    I want to announce our new PDF (document) search engine with some unique features based on Google API.

    PDFSearcher.com is a free PDF search engine that is able to find any PDF document (manuals, newpapers, articles, product specifications, ebooks and documentation) available online.
    Search for documents is easy and free and results are accurate due to the fact that PDFSearcher.com is the only engine that allows searching within the text of PDF files not only keywords (of domain, file etc).
    This function is very useful in case of PDF and users can locate any text phrase withing PDF itself.

    Find documents, read online or download ,convert to plain text (other super cool function). You can rate or recommed found documents to the other users very easy.

    Over 200 million documents are available to search and download (indexed by Google of course)

    Start to use it and if you find what you are looking for, I am happy.

    Good luck,
    R.
     
    shmekerosu, Sep 21, 2010 IP
  2. shmekerosu

    shmekerosu Active Member

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    any sugestions or comments ?
    how quick is it for you?
     
    shmekerosu, Sep 25, 2010 IP
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    shmekerosu Active Member

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    Some of the new features were implemented:
    NEW:
    - PDFbox was implemented: you can save any PDF documents (ebook, manual, product spec.) and share it with others (short link)
    - read online/download/convert PDF 2 TEXT
    - star rating (selected documents will appear first in results for same search term)
    - new design

    Please review this and let me know if this is working properly for you! Any suggestion will be answered and took in consideration.

    Cheers.
     
    shmekerosu, Oct 11, 2010 IP
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    kingtony Peon

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    #4
    Now this is quite a nifty tool! Wow

    Suggestions:

    - Offer jump/quick navigation between page counts eg "1 2 3 4 5 next" OR "previous 7 8 9 10 11 12 next"
    - How do you rank results? Or does Google rank it and you just present the results?
     
    kingtony, Oct 11, 2010 IP
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    shmekerosu Active Member

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    Thanks for comments, kingtony!

    - this will be implemented in the next release (also results per page will be 16)
    - we also rank results based on PDFsearcher popularity and will also introduce star rating and starred results will show first!

    Check also PDFbox feature where users can save (recommend) matched results (good ebooks) for future refference => PDF manuals/books/guide database will be created, now it is in BETA (save results but can not see entire database yet)

    By far most usefull feature and unique is that you are able to search phrase/words in PDF document text => far better results and matches. But not many people use it properly :(


    eg:
    Search keyword: VW GOLF
    In text: repair manual (+ year)

    or any combination like this!

    Cheers!
     
    shmekerosu, Oct 11, 2010 IP
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    tattoos Prominent Member

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    Nice one,

    Seems to work OK, but I think when your able to recommend/sort them into categories it will get a lot better... So long as enough people take the time to do the sorting.

    Cheers
    James
     
    tattoos, Oct 14, 2010 IP
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    Great first time hear about it.
     
    crudeexperts, Oct 26, 2010 IP
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    shmekerosu Active Member

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    Thanks crudeexperts!
    Also, to check the rest of functions (PDFbox) you can visit newly site at: FindPDF.net

    also we established a database of recommended books, you can check in PDFbox!

    Is someone using BING engine to take results via API ? I am interested in comparing results.

    Regards,
    R.
     
    shmekerosu, Oct 26, 2010 IP
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    amarendra Well-Known Member

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    first time to hear
     
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    If you can segregate PDF files into categories, it will be much more helpful for people to search/browse on relevant topics.
     
    Weekly Paymaster, Oct 26, 2010 IP
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    shmekerosu Active Member

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    Thanks for comments.
    This is the plan to add interesting finds (from users and admin) in PDFbox based on category then users can browse any stored PDF books and rate/share them with friends. Also search in results and convert to text is really interesting, we will include all this on the new site FindPdf.net !

    Regards,
    R.
     
    shmekerosu, Oct 26, 2010 IP