Discover The Most Effective Methods To Easily Search For Files Online, For Free

By Daniel Fernald


We go online for 5 things when all is said and done. We go online looking to be entertained, looking to interact socially, looking to conduct business, looking for news and information, and we go online to search for files. There's nothing that we do online which falls entirely outside of those five categories.

When it comes to the latter most category, which is to say 'search for files' a great many of us have a limited grasp of the options available.

##Search engine

The traditional search engines like Google and Bing are, for so many of us, the gatekeepers to the entirety of the internet. The vast majority of all web traffic around the world starts with a search query. If you are specifically looking for files to download, an excellent way to narrow down the search results is to actually include the word 'download' in your search query or include a file type suffix like avi, zip, mp3, pdf etc. Go to Google and look for 'Constant Gardener download' or 'Subway Map pdf' or 'bohemian rhapsody mp3' and you will find files which you can download.

##File sharing sites

Something that you'll quickly start to come across, if you do Google searches which include file extensions, are file sharing websites. These are web sites which are focused on the sharing of files online. There are a great many movie and TV show sites out there for example, which will enable you to download movies and full episodes of tv shows from their servers straight to your computer.

##Bit Torrent Sites

You will also find Bit Torrent sites available online. These sites let you download torrent files, which work as coded keys that afford you download access to specific files on other user's computers. Torrent downloads are extremely efficient because they grab the particular file in question in small pieces from whoever happens to be online at the time and switch from user to user as individuals log on and off.

##File Sharing Search Engines

There are also search engines available that specifically query the many file sharing sites and index the results, enabling you to execute a file sharing search across a wide variety of sources. A great file search engine can end up saving you a whole lot of time and bother and can also be a good way to discover specific file sharing websites of which you were not previously aware.

The next time you are going online to search for files, do not forget to try a few of these methods. There are lots of files out there if you know how to look for them.




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