OutWit Docs Digs Deeper Into Document Search
Firefox: If you find using search engines to ferret out documents on the web isn’t cutting it, OutWit Docs is a dedicated document search tool with a host of options.
Unlike searching for documents in a general search engine, when you search wtih OutWit Docs you’re able to dig deeper and manipulate the data more thoroughly. The data still comes from the same sources like Google but you can specify keywords, document type (including office, open office, csv, Flash, and PDF), and filter by a wide range of criteria including age, size, site URL, and keywords within the search results. You can conduct multiple searches, OutWit Docs saves the results and the tweaking you’ve done for each search so you can easily compare search results. You can download documents immediately or drag and drop them to the holding bin, as seen in the lower left corner of the screenshot above, for bulk downloading at a later time. OutWit Docs requires Firefox 3.0+ and works wherever Firefox does. If you have your own preferred document search solution, share it in the comments below.
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This could be invaluable. I'll test it out!
Martin Brown
Sounds interesting. I always find that searching for *.pdf or *.doc etc, is not very efficient.
Not sure why this is better than searching Filetype:PDF + Site:www.URL.com + keywords ...
I guess the age feature could be handy, though - especially if you do the same search often. Now if it had a Thumbnail preview of the PDFs, THAT would be awesome.
Sarah Klimczak Wilkerson
you can always try the filetype filter in google.
e.g. "gutenberg filetype:pdf"
mfusion
A bit quicker in a google search (instead of using filetype:pdf) is
ext:pdf
Joe Duck