Mininova Breaks 2 Billion Downloads Barrier

Written by Ernesto on June 12, 2007 

Mininova, 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.

mininovaIn 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.

mininova 2 billion

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19 Responses

1 Jun 12, 2007 at 22:32 by Henri

Woah ! And http://www.sumotorrent.com today just passed the 1 million downloads milestone, there is a huge gap to fill ^

2 Jun 13, 2007 at 16:07 by Netmaster

What to else say…

CONGRATS!! Long live to Mininova!

3 Jun 13, 2007 at 18:50 by jim

and yet another big torrent sites dies due to mpiaa or the riaa… oh well.

4 Jun 13, 2007 at 21:34 by kz26

Now that is a textbook example of an exponential curve :) Sweet, long live BitTorrent and Mininova!!!

5 Jun 14, 2007 at 04:58 by daryoko

i’m always use mininova to get torrent file that i need..
Thxs..

6 Aug 05, 2007 at 14:28 by LMAO

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.

7 Aug 09, 2007 at 22:05 by the supervisor

the best internet site cant get any better.keep the good work up,and many thanks.cheers supervisor…………

8 Oct 16, 2007 at 10:40 by stanley rogers

pleased as punche

9 Oct 16, 2007 at 10:44 by stanley rogers

I LIKE WHAT I SEE IN THE LIST GOOD SHOW THANK YOU

10 Oct 22, 2007 at 16:33 by sherief

the best site in downloading ever but but need t be more specified (detailed) about things i’want to download

11 Oct 25, 2007 at 08:25 by Anonymous

[quote comment="113871"]What to else say…

CONGRATS!! Long live to Mininova![/quote]

12 Nov 13, 2007 at 02:35 by LACERDA

GOSTO DOS PROGRAMAS DO MININOVA

13 Nov 27, 2007 at 23:59 by pissy

great site shame its screwed up most of the time

14 Feb 10, 2008 at 03:35 by dave

3 billion now…
VERY NICE!

15 Mar 11, 2008 at 18:28 by alexa

this is sow great wery wery nice

16 Mar 11, 2008 at 18:30 by alexa

WHO IS FROM NEW JERSEY?

17 Mar 22, 2008 at 16:29 by septic

i bet 90% of that is pirated. i mean what is better than something free, Nothing but the product itself!

18 Jun 14, 2008 at 11:40 by zoro

this is called exponential growth.No one can stop the p2p community

19 Aug 03, 2008 at 08:03 by clipitlive

All the trailer links put up under torrents belong to the admins. (not to mention they have nothing what so ever to do with the quality of the torrent) they banned clipitlive.com from posting direct sample links (Direct, no pop up ads) because it competes with the admins google pop up ads,
reason given for this, “those links are for copyrighted material”, Mininova’s whole site is based on copyrighted material, what a joke

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