isoHunt Now Indexes 1 Million Torrents
Written by Ernesto on March 03, 2008The popular BitTorrent site IsoHunt just reached a new milestone, as they now index over 1 million torrents. In total, the torrents on IsoHunt point to 22 million files that all add up to a dazzling 743TB in data.
isoHunt has been around for ages, longer than almost any other BitTorrent site in existence today, and they are still moving forward. Last month they released a new Ajaxy comment and rating system, and today they reached another milestone.
IsoHunt founder Gary Fung writes in their forums: “It has been a long time coming, but with steady growth of active torrents from around the Web (which I’ll call the Torrentsphere from now on if you don’t mind), isoHunt’s index reached the 1 million torrents milestone 2 hours ago.”
Like most other BitTorrent sites, isoHunt’s traffic is not slowing down at all. The site is currently among the 150 most visited websites on the Internet, and listed in the top three most used BitTorrent sites together with The Pirate Bay and Mininova. The increasing popularity also has its downsides though, in this case downtime because the servers can’t keep up.
The record traffic, in combination with the new features, have caused server issues over the past few weeks, and they had to display a “iSohunt is Sick” error message more often than they wanted to. “It’ll be back to normal soon enough,” Gary says, adding “You should seldom see them now that we got most congestion issues solved.”
IsoHunt had a small backlash last year when the isoHunt team had to block access to all US visitors on their TorrentBox and Podtropolis tracker, because of their involvement in a lawsuit initiated by the MPAA. Other than that, things are going great for them.
The increase in BitTorrent’s popularity is far from over yet. The numbers speak for itself, isoHunt indexing a million torrents, The Pirate Bay tracking 10 million peers, and Mininova just had its 4 billionth download.
Good times for the “torrentsphere”.
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Still think Thepiratebay kicks ass……..
good on ‘em, keep it going guys.
Nice one IsoHunt. Wish them all the best. Great site!
kool nice site:-)
Many torrent indexes have over one million torrents, this is like praising the slow kid at school for passing the finish line. Not very nice of you torrentfreak!
Respek to ol ma peeps at isohunt!
TPB ftw they doesnt bend over for MAFIAA like mininiva/isohunt/torrentspy/torrentz do!!
LONG LIVE THEPIRATEBAY!!
[quote comment="302830"]PS! A little mistake, Ernesto.
“The increase in BitTorrent’s popularity is far from over yet. The numbers speak for itself, isoHunt indexing a million torrents, The Pirate Bay tracking 10 million torrents, and Mininova just had its 4 billionth download.”
Thepiratebay don’t track 10 million torrents, they track 10 million peers. “A little” difference, there :3[/quote]
Thanks, fixed!
[quote comment="302925"]TPB ftw they doesnt bend over for MAFIAA like mininiva/isohunt/torrentspy/torrentz do!!
LONG LIVE THEPIRATEBAY!![/quote]
hurray!
Conforming to DMCA isnt bending over its a tactical move. If the person who legaly owns a peice of intelectual property requests its removal (which actualy isnt a very easy thing to achieve on any site), then it is better to remove it and placate them on that one particular release. It would be beyond the scope of most legal establishments to request the removal of all peices of intelectual property, so if you think that by removing 1 thing, you are somehow harming bittorrent, you clearly dont understand the process. I might add that the pirate bay is only 1 site of the 392 sites indexed by isohunt The pirate bays figure of 10 million peers is an optomistic one, those are not ‘unique’ peers, only a cumulative count. Isohunt tracks a peer count of 16.6 million across nearly 60,000 trackers and last I checked TPB’s total count of unique torrents at isohunt was 8% of the total. That is, only 8% of TPB’s torrents were unique to TBP at the time of indexing, the other 92% of torrents on their site were indexed from somewhere else. At the last round of bot activity, 180 new torrents were seen at TPB compared to 1614 from Mininova.
Nice news! I hope to see more torrent trackers too.
And SUMOTorrent.com has reached more than 50 millions downloads and 900 000 torrents indexed too !
[quote comment="302843"]Also slight mistake in the title
“the torrents on IsoHunt point to 22 million files files that all add up to a dazzling 743TB in data.”[/quote]
Probably not a mistake. It is simply 22 files per torrent on average.
As for index sites in general. They do provide a purpose (searchability), but mostly I would say that they are the leechers of the torrent world,that make the experience less personal and reduce contact with the actual source of the torrent.
Comments gets spread out over multiple index sites instead of being centralized on a single spot where the torrent is originally posted. People who download the torrents don’t know who the original poster is and don’t give a shit.
The will to seed back what you leech is also reduced as the whole thing becomes impersonal.
This is bad for torrent communities in general. It also makes it problematic for bands and other original content posters that would love for you to visit their site and donate, or atleast read the description that they provided with the original torrent as well as post comments/thanks.
Sure, you can include extra readme/nfo files with the torrent itself, but who actually read those files. Not most people I guess. I surely don’t.
Personally, I think everything would be much better if index sites linked back to the original site like search engines does.
1 million torrents on ISOHUNT
50% have no seeds
25% Fakes
ISOHUNT really is a crappy site.
[quote comment="303012"]1 million torrents on ISOHUNT
50% have no seeds
25% Fakes
ISOHUNT really is a crappy site.[/quote]
Get your facts right. For arguments sake, if your made up figures were even close to being correct, it would mean 50% of the torrents from 392 sites were unseeded, and 25% of the files on those 392 sites are fake. that means your saing that 50%/25% of the files from Mininova, TPB, and TorrentPortal (the 3 largest indexed sites), are unseeded, and or fake. I fail to see how that is isohunts problem. Do you even know the meaning of the work ‘indexed’?
IsoHunt FTMW!
I am not a big fan of index websites or websites using crawlers.
for example i recently went over to btjunkie to check out my torrent with around 800 seeders and to my shock i found a total of 8 other copies of my torrent. (all with different size etc)
Torrent websites that actualy host the torrents themselves are more likely to be moderated. (mininova, TPB)
My favorite: TPB and second mininova.
[quote comment="303004"][quote comment="302843"] {snipped}
Personally, I think everything would be much better if index sites linked back to the original site like search engines does.[/quote]
Dude, Isohunt DOES like back to the original laction of the torrent / the page is was indexed from. Quite clearly underneath the “download Torrent” button.
The added comments system helps people who are to comment on the torrents indexed… helping Noobs, Fuckwits and people who just dont want to search the web with info-hash codes looking for clues.
[quote comment="303033"]I am not a big fan of index websites or websites using crawlers.
for example i recently went over to btjunkie to check out my torrent with around 800 seeders and to my shock i found a total of 8 other copies of my torrent. (all with different size etc)
Torrent websites that actualy host the torrents themselves are more likely to be moderated. (mininova, TPB)
My favorite: TPB and second mininova.[/quote]
Basically, you’re saying you found 8 different torrents… >_<
Thanks for the article, it was great!
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Once again I say
ISOHUNT garbage
50% no seeds
25% Fakes
TPB,MININOVA,SUMO,REACTOR,ALL CRAP-
PUBLIC TRACKERS ARE COMPLETE TRASH..
If everyone is so enthused over ISOHUNT, I think these people should download APPZ from there….ISOHUNT is so disorganized…People who download torrents from public trackers are the ones who got banned from private sites. Also people think its so hard to join good sites,rubbish I say most sites offer the DONATE YOU IN THE GATE option…Donate to a good site and piss on these public trackers…
Hey just because you’re too retarded to download from a public tracker without getting a fake doesnt mean everyone else is. And why the fuck should I donate to gain access to site filled with elitist fucktards when I can get anything they have on a public site 20 minutes to an hour after pre? Might take a bit longer to download but I’d rather wait than feed some idiots ego.
isohunt sucks , TPB has way better search results
I second the ISOhunt sucks…
TPB FTW!!
Plus 1 million torrents? Btjunkie has 1.8 million and is much better and more advanced IMO
Hahahaha! I love how every article about a tracker causes us to argue which trackers are good and which ones suck.
Good times!
pls can i have invite to what.cd
jon.hark@gmail.com
all you guys must have been banned by the mods I take it.
poor babies
Lucky you guys only use three letter names, theres more tards commenting here. isoHunt isn’t a tracker. It has two release systems, one indexed from approx 400 sites, and their own users releases.
Have you tpb lovers ever noticed that the tpb tracker is used more for fakes and domplayer type files than any other tracker now days?
Some of the posters in here are better off not saying anything and just letting people think your a fool, than opening your mouth and removing all doubt!
Aaahahahah! Google is still the biggest crack/appz/p0rn search portal.
Its sad how people feel the need to do a “my torrent site is better than yours” job. Especially when in this case, the torrents from TPB make up only /some/ of the torrents indexed on isoHunt (which is NOT a goddamn tracker noobs).
Intersting stat: roughly 70% of the fake files we spot (or have reported to us) use The Pirate Bay’s tackers. We add a comment system to help YOU people to avoid these fakes more easily and all the majority can do here is bitch like little school kids..
btw i like The Pirate Bay, i think its great. I also know how to avoid a fake file and find comments from originating sites ^_^
(nothing like using hypocricy to argue a point.. i love irony :D )
Hey, not once ever have I logged into my piratebay or isohunt account and found the usual global monthly begging letter from the admins. Public sites exist for the good of the masses, private trackers cater for the minority who are only interested in themselves and are generaly hard of thinking. Getting invited to private sites is easy, some of us know enough of the right people that that is not an issue, but having no real reason to use them tells me that provided you now your ass from your elbow, you dont need a private site account for shit. The only exception to that is specialist sites like Audionews.ru where the majority of the content simply cannot be found on any other site, public or private. They at least serve a true purpose, and again, I neved had a begging letter from them either.
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If the stingy torrent hunters would just give a little donation to a quality private site they would have nothing to cry about..I will guess that the little upset people here praising the public tracker system are the ones that got kicked out of a quality site.
Piss on public trackers Piss on the Bay,Piss on ISOHUNT,piss on Sumo,and piss on the Banned club. I support my home site, I have Awesome speeds and Awesome ratios…Yes I donate to my home site..I belong to the good ratio club. You cry babies belong to the Banned and dont ever come back club. So run along now and go download from ISOHUNT…
isohunt their hunt iso game is so cool
i love catching isos..
public trackers blow…they’re so filled with noobs
[quote comment="303196"]If the stingy torrent hunters would just give a little donation to a quality private site they would have nothing to cry about..I will guess that the little upset people here praising the public tracker system are the ones that got kicked out of a quality site.
Piss on public trackers Piss on the Bay,Piss on ISOHUNT,piss on Sumo,and piss on the Banned club. I support my home site, I have Awesome speeds and Awesome ratios…Yes I donate to my home site..I belong to the good ratio club. You cry babies belong to the Banned and dont ever come back club. So run along now and go download from ISOHUNT…[/quote]
Why do you assume that just because some of us dont feel the need to line the pockets of private site admins that we’re somehow all banned from whatever asshole site you come from. My point is that there is a certain majority of people on every private tracker just like you, who think that being there makes them special is some way. Well you’re not special. The real contributers in the torrent community are not twats like yourself, but those who choose to upload to public sites where their ratio doesnt mean shit.
STFU “so sad” I did not mean to hurt your feelings. I see your a Public tracker kinda guy. I hope you realize that you too are just a hit when it comes to the advertising banners on public trackers. So its safe to say you are providing funds to the admn of public trackers. Foot goes to mouth pretty well Twot. Please try and GET IT RIGHT before you type outloud. I dont want to make you cry little man. But you need to be schooled tonight. So run along now and visit your twin brother on SUMO..
P.s. Puffs are the brand of choice for crying little girls……….
Just a hit? lulz. I dont get banner ads on isohunt, I have an opt out. Besides that no one is forced to see them. In case you havent heard, theres this thing called adblocking. I’ll let you google what it is, it seems like you cound use the educating. Finaly, ads are pay per click, so even if I did have to see ads and didnt know what an ad blocker was, I’d still have to click on most of them to generate them any income. Once again you’ve spoken, but said absolutely nothing. Bravo fool. :D
Whether you find ISOhunt useful or not, it’s good that it exists. Sites like that make it easy for newbies to get started.
And if we really want the “torrentsphere” to take over from official sites, and provide us with data that is free of charge and free of copyright, then it is our duty to use public sites. While private sites serve a purpose, it’s pretty cowardly to hide amongst the criminals that run them. We should all be uploading to public trackers. Our strength is in numbers. If more people seed on public sites, then it’s harder for the lawyers to keep track of who is operating. They can’t sue a million seeders every day, can they?
And another thing…
Why should I donate to a private torrent site? I thought the whole point of torrents was to eliminate the profit motive? If I have to pay money to download software, I’d rather pay it to the original manufacturer than to a shady mafia character running a site in Russia.
If someone is charging you to download torrents, you’re being ripped off. The way torrents work best is if people SHARE. No money needs to change hands.
does iso hunt track torrents?
Or is it just a search engine?
Isohunt is a primarily a torrent search engine, but its not *just* an indexing site, it also hosts torrents and adds new trackers to the relevent torrents as the bot crawls each tracker and sees the torrent on that tracker. The site also allows for the posting of other p2p related links like ed2k and magnet links for releases instead of or as well as torrents. 2 other sites in the isohunt group do run trackers, Podtropolis.com and Torrentboxcom, but isohunt itself does not have a tracker.
Isohunt FTW!
quantity ≠ quality
Isohunt would’ve been better, as would all of them, if instead of requiring 2 clicks which take 5 mins to resolve if you’re already downloading, you can open or save the torrent with one click, and not have to wait while they try to access all the ad sites first. After that you have to get back to the first page again. They could use popup balloons for the content.
I don’t post this stuff on their site as I’ve never been able to join up, no matter what I’ve tried. This would also deter a lot of people from commenting.
die?
[quote comment="303196"]If the stingy torrent hunters would just give a little donation to a quality private site they would have nothing to cry about..I will guess that the little upset people here praising the public tracker system are the ones that got kicked out of a quality site.
Piss on public trackers Piss on the Bay,Piss on ISOHUNT,piss on Sumo,and piss on the Banned club. I support my home site, I have Awesome speeds and Awesome ratios…Yes I donate to my home site..I belong to the good ratio club. You cry babies belong to the Banned and dont ever come back club. So run along now and go download from ISOHUNT…[/quote]
I moderate on public and private sites, im certianlly member of several under various names..
What do i prefer to share with? PUBLIC TRACKERS. People who shoot their guns from their private sites are just antisocial mofo’s. The word “thief” suits them better than “sharer”
I used to use public trackers. ISOHunt, Mininova, TPB. But they all suck tremendously in comparison to private sites. It’s not that hard to get in fellas…
yes, i am a noob. i have been using isohunt, tpb, and btjunkie for about a year.
i used to be one that d/l’ed for personal use. movies, apps, games, etc.
then i got the funny idea that if I shared more I would be rewarded with faster d/l’s and access to more content for my searches. how little i knew then, but i do realize the importance of sharing, well… at least give back a lil more than i took. so now all my ratios are at least 1.0 to 10.0 depending on the torrent.
but fear and not knowing what is out there that can harm me has limited my understanding. using Cox cable (SE US) I worry that my bandwidth is being monitored or throttled. sharing and karma for torrents is great. rare files are great to come by and would be impossible if people didn’t share. i am thankful for that and hope to contribute.
however, when the excrement hits the air conditioning, will torrent community bail me out? will that fact that i had good karma ratios aid my defense? probably not. something we all run the risk of happening.
so, i guess my question is that, will private sites offer anything more than faster d/l’s, specific content, or ratio do-gooders? or are they more secure, virus free, and educational w/o all the ego? after all, what good is an ego in a realm w/ anon usage?
have fun with this post,
sincerely,
the afterburned
It’s funny how some of these ignorant comments are putting down the ISOhunt tracker site. Get your facts straight, ISOhunt is an indexing site and is in no way a tracker site. Isohunt is simply like the google of the torrent world.
isohunt sucks, full of fakes, so what if they index this or that. How do you call a fake dumpsite like isohunt the largest bittorrent site, bulljangle, it is noob site to get caught and fined by anti-p2p as it is like I said full of fakes.
Isohunt isnt a dump site asshat. The only fakes on isohunt are other sites fakes. If isohunt indexes a fake from TPB before they bother getting around to removing it from their tracker, there is fuck all the isohunt staff can do about that untill someone reports is as being fake and it is either flagged as fake so others can avoid it, or the staff remove it from the index. So yet again, another moron that doesnt know wtf they’re talking about.
I dont see why 1 million torrents are a big achievement….
When I ran a torrent search engine, I had 40 million torrents indexed in less than a month…
“So yet again, another moron that doesnt know wtf they’re talking about.”
You breakin my heart noob
[quote comment="304109"]I dont see why 1 million torrents are a big achievement….
When I ran a torrent search engine, I had 40 million torrents indexed in less than a month…[/quote]
Whats the smell? sniff sniff… ahh thats it - the smell of bullshit.
haha, 40 million in one month. Can u give me the url plz? how come others havent heard of this?
totally agree with 57
:P
http://tftb.net
Isohunt gone good now.
I remember some 6 mnths back when I used to use Isohunt for my Torrent Search.I used to end up with torrents having very less amount of trackers and the statistics were always wrong. But now, I was amazed it all great.
Isohunt deserves it.:D
i been using isohunt from the beginning and it is unrivalled as a search engine if you know how to use it
unfriendly as the interface is they are trying hard to improve it
well done Gary, keep up the lead dude
At the end of the day bitorrent rules but a far cry from torrentspys early days before the changes, even mininova isnt as good as that was, we are just limited to a handfull and mininova is one of them. Just glad it exists
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