With Alexa rank In below 100, Rapidshare and Megaupload are both, two of the biggest file sharing websites of the planet. Millions of people daily upload and download files from rapidshare and megaupload, either with their free service or with premium service, which allows high speed unrestricted downloads.

Both the site seems to be near perfect with no ads (atleast in rapidshare) and zero downtime with a good amount of file keeping time (90 days before deleting), there is only one problem with both sites, that they do not provide any kind of file searching facility. This means you can not search rapidshare.com and megaupload.com for any kind of files uploaded by any other user, you can only download those files whose url's you have.

Why can't you search Rapidshare and megaupload ?

Why rapidshare and megaupload have not allowed search facility? The answer is simple, if they do, people will search whatever they want and start downloading. This will become a lot like youtube kind of scenario where people can search any video and download it too through sites likes keepvid.

The problem with this approach is, even though bandwidth is very cheap, millions of people downloading any file which they want can cause these sites to go bankrupt since these sites already run on wafer thin margin of premium subscription and little advertising, any kind of excessive expenditure on bandwidth and servers can break the system for both the sites hence they do not provide any search feature.

How to search Rapidshare and megaupload?

If you are really desperate to search rapidshare and megaupload, you may like to use this small nifty tool using which you can search rapidshare and Megaupload sites with ease and the best thing is, that the tool Is Free.

It is based on Google search engine index and uses Google API to search the index files of rapidshare and megaupload. So why wait, go and check it out.