The web is the sink for every sort of document and publicly available PowerPoint files are also not beyond the reach of search spiders. So how do we search them out…using search engines of course. PowerPoint presentations make a good tool for conveying our interest and findings to others in a clean and simple way.

Looking at well designed slides is a crash course on how to design effective presentations. Also, searching out new presentations and learning how they are done can cure mental blocks when we have to design our own.It is estimated that there are about 50 million publicly available presentations on web. Here in we have composed best PowerPoint search engines to help you find relative presentations easily.

FileDigg

It is a dedicated PowerPoint search engine for PPT files and   .doc, .pdf, xml, .flash files also from the web.By selecting the perticular  file type operator you can limit your search for only that type of files.

Presentation2go

The slides can be downloaded as PPT files, viewed in the browser as HTML or in a Flash viewer.It is is powered by Google and Yahoo at the backend.

SlideShare

Here users can upload and submit PPT files online but it is not a complete PowerPoint search engine.Although it used by thousands of users you can find the presentation that you are looking for. Presentation which are arranged in category wise can also be browsed,it also takes care that PPT files hosted in its site are of good quality

Slideworld

The site uses Google Custom Search to do the job.This offers you to access to over 7 million presentations.It also hosts presentations uploaded by users that’s arranged in categories like computers, science, entertainment, culture, education and many more.You can also narrow down your search by browsing through categories and tags. Presentations can be viewed in the browser or download to your computer to view offline.

PowerPoint Search

This is another simple search engine that can filter Google Custom searches and retain the results for PPT files.All that you need is to enter the search query in the search box and hit enter.PowerPoint Search is a standalone search engine that is dedicated just to find the presentations that you are looking for.If you want to include it in your browser, it also comes with a search extension.

Search PPT Presentations

It will search the web and produce results according to their relevance with the given title or tags.It just need to enter the presentation title that you are looking for or enter tags related to the presentation you want.It will search though millions of PPT files before producing results that you need.

SlideFinder

This is a site which indexes PowerPoint slides from across the web and also from universities which have made them publicly available.the most interesting thing about this site is that Presentations are also available in languages of the world, from English to Chinese and Icelandic.