Google Torrents

Written by Ernesto on November 05, 2006 

I stumbled upon this BitTorrent search engine that uses Google’s search technology to find torrents. It is not very user friendly though, because it does not return info like the size of the torrent, or seeds and peers.

google BitTorrent filesGoogle Torrents is using the Google Coop platform. Google Coop allows people to create customized and personalized search engines.

Even though it is not very useful, it does show that it is easy to find torrents with Google. Google even has a filetype command that helps you to find .torrent files.

A couple of months ago the BitTorrent search engine Torrentspy used this argument in a motion to dismiss a lawsuit initiated by the MPAA. Torrentspy said that that everything they do, Google can do better.

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18 Responses (Add yours or TrackBack)

1 Nov 05, 2006 at 21:51 by dude

link?

2 Nov 05, 2006 at 22:03 by Ernesto

linked to the image ;)
corrected

3 Nov 05, 2006 at 23:00 by dude

ok, but is it just me or is this thing not working at all? i cant find anything at all no matter what i search for…

4 Nov 06, 2006 at 01:54 by Platypus

Just go to google.com and write: searchword filetype:torrent

5 Nov 06, 2006 at 01:59 by Platypus

Btw, this should only be used if:
a] torrentz.com shuts down
b] you desperatly want the torrent
c] you don’t know about more REAL torrent search pages.

there are some places you can learn more interesting things to use/abuse google for.

6 Nov 06, 2006 at 04:46 by daniel

Sucks, ill stick with torrentz.com… its the same stuff than typing what you want in google, then adding the word torrent in the end and then start the search

7 Nov 06, 2006 at 11:17 by George D'Silva

[quote comment="19858"]Sucks, ill stick with torrentz.com… its the same stuff than typing what you want in google, then adding the word torrent in the end and then start the search[/quote]

The result page takes you to the directory, where you can find other torrents of the same category. This is in fact amazing, as you will discover something which you have always wanted, but never got to lay your hands upon.

8 Nov 06, 2006 at 12:10 by yep

yep, torrentz.com is the the shit over here to

9 Nov 06, 2006 at 14:48 by wala

does this site too creates cookies with 2038 expiration date like the real google?

10 Nov 06, 2006 at 16:15 by dude

Ok, so torrentz.com is still the best torrent search site compared to other similar ones (not even counting googletorrents)?

11 Feb 23, 2007 at 11:41 by Michael

I’ve something to test for you guys:
http://snipurl.com/torrentsearchengine

also working stuff like
http://snipurl.com/torrentsearchengine/hddvd
or
http://snipurl.com/torrentsearchengine/(hddvd|blueray)
and so on and so far. So you can directly link to a search. :)

12 Aug 02, 2007 at 10:25 by snoopinc

ALL new googletorrents - http://torrent-search.piczo.com

13 Aug 21, 2007 at 06:34 by rahman

i wana see it what it does

14 Aug 27, 2007 at 12:53 by snoopinc

http://www.torrentrealm.com is proudly powered by Google Coop. We have millions of torrents index every minute.

15 Oct 24, 2007 at 17:52 by Kurye

http://www.kuryecim.com

16 Nov 29, 2007 at 02:25 by peter

pwede po gawa nyo ako ng backround un bloods po

17 Mar 21, 2008 at 22:03 by Peter Jabs

Looks like a copy of the well-known torrent search: http://www.toorgle.com

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