Mininova Breaks 2 Billion Downloads Barrier
Written by Ernesto on June 12, 2007Mininova, one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines, experiences a massive growth in the first half of 2007, and today they served the 2 billionth .torrent download.
In January, when mininova celebrated its second anniversary, they passed the 1 billion download mark. It wasn’t really a surprise that getting to 2 billion wouldn’t take another 2 years, but not many expected that it would happen this fast.
Niek, the founder of mininova is excited about reaching this milestone, and hopes to continue serving torrents at this rate. One of the factors that contributed to mininova’s continued success is the redesign of the front- and back end last December, that dramatically improved the search and browse speed.
In a response to the great news Niek told TorrentFreak:
“I never expected mininova to reach 2 billion downloads this fast. We’ve grown very fast over the past months, in users as well as downloaded torrents. At the moment we have approximately 2 million users, and 10 million pageviews every
day.”
The graph below shows how steady mininova has been growing since its launch back in January 2005. More stats can be found at the Mininova blog.
So, congratulations to mininova, and I expect we will see the 3 billionth download by the end of summer.
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Woah ! And http://www.sumotorrent.com today just passed the 1 million downloads milestone, there is a huge gap to fill ^
What to else say…
CONGRATS!! Long live to Mininova!
and yet another big torrent sites dies due to mpiaa or the riaa… oh well.
Now that is a textbook example of an exponential curve :) Sweet, long live BitTorrent and Mininova!!!
i’m always use mininova to get torrent file that i need..
Thxs..
90% of Mininova’s downloads come from BOT’s that are downloading for other sites like isohunt or TorrentReactor for example. Upload a torrent to Mininova and you will soon find it on 20 other sites that have Bots pouring over the mininova pages. Then of course, you have to factor in the Mininova/EZTV scam they have going on with even more bots that are scripted to put the EZTV torrents into the Top Tens every night. My guess is that as few as 4-5% of the 2 billion torrents downloaded were actually downloaded by people.
It’s nice to dream, but the reality is always different, especially when you report the facts and not the hype.
the best internet site cant get any better.keep the good work up,and many thanks.cheers supervisor…………
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