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Rapidstack searches working Rapidshare downloads in realtime
Rapidstack is an excellent search engine for users who download frequently from - where else - Rapidshare. They claim to filter dead links and return only working downloads, and it worked well in my testing.
Submit your query, and results load below the text box as Rapidstack finds them. Queries can take a little while to execute depending on what you search for, but you're trading a few seconds of waiting patiently for download links that actually work. That's a trade most of us are probably willing to make.
Each filename links to the original URL, and links are also displayed beneath the file name. If you'd rather just head straight for the files, clicking on extract links will open a new tab and produce a plain-text listing of Rapidshare URLs ready to paste into your favorite download manager - like JDownloader.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Gavin said 12:28PM on 2-17-2009
Hey Lee,
Thanks for the great review. Rapidstack has been a really fun project so far, and many seem to be benefiting from its service already. We have lots of new features coming down the pipe (better search algorithms and result ranking etc.), which I'm hoping to release in the next month or two.
Also just as an added note; if Rapidstack finds a dead link, it'll ignore that page next time those keywords are used. This will produce faster "Active" results the more its used.
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srcstcbstrd said 10:41PM on 2-21-2009
Great site and it sure helps me in my search unlike other RapidShare search engines. However, I do have one little problem with it. If I search for something and get, say, 25 hits - when I visit a site and try to return to the list of hits, I have to start from scratch. In other words, I don't seem to be able to get back to the original search. Kind of gets annoying after awhile.
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akram said 9:15AM on 4-10-2009
try fileonfire.com
its better and more powerful
and just thank me later
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