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Work · June 11, 2019

Sifty Search

Online tool for searching through documents. CTRL+F on crack

Sifty Search launched on June 11, 2019 with 63 votes, #613 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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What it does

An online search tool that searches through ppts, pdfs & docs to find keywords. Employs a fuzzy search algorithm & multi-document search that makes it 100's of times more user friendly than a simple CTRL+F. Currently targeted at university students.

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