Desktop torrent search engines seem to have grown in popularity over the last six months or so. Torrent Magnifier actually originated as a meta torrent search engine on the web which is still available. The developer’s must have made the decision to create a software for their torrent search engine to increase the popularity and [...]

Categories: P2p, Software, Windows

Several torrent applications such as uTorrent provide access to a torrent search that originates in the client software. Most launch the search on a website in the default web browser instead of displaying the search results in their own interface. TorrentFetcher, a desktop Torrent search engine, offers torrent search capabilities right from its interface. Everything [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Update: Youtorrent 3 apparently stole the script from the website Nowtorrents, that’s at least what the search results at Youtorrent 3 are now claiming. This looks like a script protection put in place by the developers of the script. I’m a bit puzzled by the sudden increase in torrent search engines that search on multiple [...]

Categories: P2p

Torrent websites are much like Linux distributions, there are so many out there that it is easy to lose the track. Torrent search engines can be divided into two categories: Site search engines and meta search engines. Site search engines obviously only search the torrents that are hosted on one selected website while meta search engines crawl the databases of several torrent websites which often leads to better results.

Categories: Online Services, P2p

I’m not a regular on torrent websites but I know that they all seem to have a similar layout. No eye candy, no Ajax, just simple searches and results. That’s fine with me but it feels like they are all missing some technology trends that emerged recently with Ajax for instance. Youtorrent is a torrent search engine that tries to be what Youtube is for videos and Youporn is for sex videos – the key player of the torrent search engines.

Categories: P2p, The Web

Its rather easy to search the web for p2p f…

Categories: Search Engines