BitTorrent Searches Skyrocket as Sites Grow
Written by Ernesto on September 01, 2008The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt all have millions of visitors every day, searching for music, movies, software and especially TV-shows. Together, the three BitTorrent sites serve an impressive 500 million searches each month, and this number is going up every month.
The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt combined achieve over a billion pageviews a month. These are quite remarkable statistics when you consider that together, the trio run on less than 100 servers (cf. Facebook has 10,000).
Despite all three sites being involved in lawsuits, they continue to attract more visitors, and thus more searches. Mininova and The Pirate Bay currently process between 7 and 8 million searches per day, roughly 230 million a month. isoHunt isn’t far behind though, as its users perform 6 million searches every day, totaling some 180 million a month.
As Slyck points out today, the larger BitTorrent sites are getting as many searches as eBay and Amazon. When combined, the three BitTorrent sites are good for half a billion searches every month, which equals half of MSN’s total search traffic (and 5% of Google’s searches). The major difference though, is that the BitTorrent sites are still growing, while Microsoft’s search engine traffic is declining.
Even though most people use BitTorrent to download TV-shows, the latest Hollywood blockbusters such as Wall-E and The Dark Knight can also be found among the most popular searches. An interesting trend worth mentioning is that more people are searching for high definition content, as ‘720p‘ is a recurring term in most site search clouds.
Mininova Search Cloud.
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The PB is the leader and has it’s own trackers but IsoHunt combines trackers in the torrent that you get.
Cool stuff.
is this good or bad?
The increase makes sense when you consider the growing population of technologically savvy people. As more people are introduced to torrenting, more searches will consequently appear in the figures. The numbers must be staggering if you take into consideration private trackers.
A torrent site that doesn’t provide a tracker is lame. Respect to TPB.
the three BitTorrent sites serve an impressive 500 million searches each month… Mininova and The Pirate Bay process… roughly 230 million a month. isoHunt isn’t far behind though, as its users perform 6 million searches every day, totaling some 180 million a month.
230 + 180 = 410m. Still, what’s 20% between friends?
And actually, the Mininova stats page has been downgraded from what it offered before. It now serves up only a few headline figures. There’s nothing like the detail that was there last week.
Could signal a change in attitudes about the “social acceptability” in using BitTorrent.
Perhaps we can gather all those people up into a political group to change copyright law to exempt all non-commercial activity.
Mininova looks like its not mini anymore.
Maybe change the name Super..
Wait nevermind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprnova.org
aXXo is just as popular a search as the dark knight, a movie that made almost a billion dollars… :O!!!!
heddy
Last I hcecked, 230 + 230 + 180 = 640. You didn’t think isohunt had almost as many searches as piratebay and mininova COMBINED?
pretty fascinating stuff. I run a marketing firm. As a former musician I am digging what the future holds.
Whistle while you download…
http://www.fetchmp3.com
Yes, a couple of laws is going to stop all this nonsense…
I wonder where they get what they smoke, and can I get some of that powerful stuff so i can blow it out my ass as well :-))
Even if the PB got shut down and those guys went to jail, someone else would just create a new one. Bittorrent is never going to go away. If the industries wanted to get in on it, they should just charge a penny per download. They’d make boatload of money and then it’d be okay to bittorrent stuff, and make it DRM free.
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The problem is those assholes are so greedy they arent even willing to give up that one measly penny. Thats what got them in this fucking situation in the first place.
I’m happily watching them reap what they’ve sown.
Even though these megasites exist some newcomers should create some quality public trackers to help balance out the load in the event of a site going offline, not just a search engine but a tracker as well.
this is false according to google insight , the total p2p bandwidth has been going down or level, streaming continues to rise and p2p according to google accounts for about 24% of all net traffic a far cry form what ISP’s say and WHAT gives them the rights to justify traffic shaping.
What no “Digg” ?
Thanks ernesto for this news
http://www.torrentalem.com/ turkish torrent blog
Woop, if we can get half the worlds population filesharing the anti-p2p wankers will have to relent sometime!
TPB,Numero Uno.Hats off to it!!! :)
lol @10. I like the fact that torrent searches will one day serpass the searches on msn.
the only one with their own tracker, tho others just search on all the other trackers ^^
Viva la mehico!! I mean El Bay de Pirate!!
[quote]Yes, a couple of laws is going to stop all this nonsense…[/quote]
Since lawmaking is politics, and political power is with the money, i must agree (except the nonsense part).
[quote]I wonder where they get what they smoke, and can I get some of that powerful stuff so i can blow it out my ass as well :-))[/quote]
Who? MAFIAA? I think they don’t smoke pot, they “just” sniff cocaine. Hmm, now that I think about it, that explains a lot, does it not?
I always use http://www.nowtorrents.com for torrent searches.
we need more public trackers, not more search services…
was hit with a cease and stop from HBO, via my ISP last week. I had to verbally agree to not DL copyrighted material and my service was turned back on the next day. Done with HBO!!!
Mininova has far better options, interface, and details. Easily.
great post
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