What if you need to quickly find a certain type of file on the Internet and it is desirable to download it without registration? For example, you need to find a table with data in Excel format or a book in TXT text format, or a PowerPoint presentation to write an essay or diploma, or, for example, a musician urgently needs a MIDI file.
Some useful services can significantly reduce the time spent searching for documents and files down to several minutes and even seconds:
- Yandex Advanced Search. Not everyone is aware that search engines have advanced versions of search. Yandex has this service on this page: https://yandex.ru/search/advanced. Here, by entering the required query, you can clarify the details of this query. For example, the language of the document, the date of publication, and, of course, the format you need. After clicking on the "Find" button, the search engine will give you a list of links to documents of the required format. You just have to click on the "Download" button, and the document will be downloaded directly from the server where the document or file is located without any registration. Or you can first read the contents of the document without downloading by clicking on the "View" button so as not to overload the computer with unnecessary files.
- Advanced Google Search. Google also provides the ability to find files of the desired format. Here is a page where you can do it: https://www.google.ru/advanced_search. Unlike Yandex, Google allows you to search in such exotic formats as: Adobe PostScript (.ps), Autodesk DWF (.dwf), Shockwave Flash (.swf). In fact, the list of formats Google searches for is much broader. If you add the so-called filetype: query operator at the end of your search phrase and add the file format you need after it, you can easily find the file you are looking for. For example, if you need to find a Bach composer's MIDI file, then you can type Bach filetype: mid and it is likely that you will find what you were looking for.
- Another useful service is at this address: https://wte.su/poisk.html. It is a search service for documents of various formats, including TXT, FB2, ODT, and even RAR and ZIP. After entering your request, you can quickly navigate through the tabs, searching for a specific file type. The service has 2 significant advantages - simplicity and speed of search. The only drawback is that links do not always lead to the final file. Where there is a direct link to the file, you will see a Download button.
- You can also use the FTP search service https://filemare.com/ to search for files. Indeed, sometimes files are uploaded to FTP servers with open access to internal folders, but search engines often do not find them. After you enter your request in the search bar of this service, you will see a list of files and folders found on the Internet that contain in their name or in the path to themselves the text you entered in the search request.
