Mininova – One Million Torrents Strong
Written by Ernesto on February 09, 2009For the first time in its four year existence, Mininova now has a million torrent files stored on its servers. These meta-data files are spread out over 10 categories on this BitTorrent giant, with movies and music representing more than half of all the torrents.
To keep up with the exponential growth in its early days, Mininova was kindly hosted by Anakata of The Pirate Bay, and later by Gary Fung of isoHunt. Demand was high, so it didn’t take long before the site had to invest in their own servers to keep pace. Over the years, one thing hasn’t change though – Mininova’s upward growth.
With 734,300,000 page views in January, Mininova yet broke another traffic record, and the number of uploaded torrents has been growing steadily over the years too. Today, for the first time in its history, Mininova has over one million torrent files in its database.
On an average day, 3000 torrents are uploaded to Mininova, either anonymously, by members or premium publishers using Mininova’s content distribution system. Of course, torrents are also removed from the site too. All fake torrents or those linked occasionally to a virus have to go, but also some due to takedown requests from the copyright holder.
Mininova’s one million torrents by category
So how does Mininova compare to the competition, one might ask. Well the Pirate Bay has 765,000 torrents on their site, although they track twice as many files. IsoHunt currently indexes 1,734,435 torrents, and Torrentz searches through 4,070,699. The latter is a meta-search engine though, and doesn’t host any files of its own.
However, to weigh these sites against each other is really like comparing apples and oranges, since they all have different policies regarding older content. On some sites you’ll find thousands of torrents without any seeds or peers, while the other removes dead files quickly. The overall trend, however, is that more content is added than removed on all BitTorrent sites, and because of this they keep on growing.
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39 Responses
Awful lot of pictures :|
that’s alot of torrents
Intresting that mininova has more torrents than TPB despite TPB being a full out garbagedump.
i love the music i find on mininova. especially all the various artists dance house music. good stuff
“Awful lot of pictures :|”
Nah it just looks like that. There are actually only 8.6k pictures if you look at the colors closely.
We love you Mininova =P
@3
your a dump dont bag TPB =D
Viva la Pirat Byran
“Intresting that mininova has more torrents than TPB despite TPB being a full out garbagedump.”
Faggot.
Ass face
Noice!
How many have seeders though?
#3 is correct, tpb is a garbage dump, in so much as it’s where everyone dumps thier trash. If you think that is an incorrect analogy you must spend no time whatsoever browsing the recent uploads section and stay mostly looking at midget porn.
The only reason mininova has more torrents then TPB is because mininova has torrents tracked by the TPB as well as other trackers.
God, its like watching drunken americans fighting over football teams in here.
Were all pirates, all those sites do the same thing. Visit and use the ones you prefer, ditch the rest. Simple as that guys. Stop with the spamish fighting.
Keep in mind, fighting online is like being in the special olympics, even if you win you’re still retarded.
(Im american, fyi. That comment could also apply to British folk fighting over football I suppose.)
Man i hope they stay around.. love mininova.. they are the silent strong type.
Mininova is good in the way that, if TPB were to go down it would still exist.
Also, TPB is NOT a dump.
What happened to Roze? Not a single post since Intense Debate was removed…?
public trackers suck balls
lol
16 Feb 10, 2009 at 08:48 by Anonymous
“What happened to Roze? Not a single post since Intense Debate was removed…?”
Was kinda wondering bout that my self,also not much from nubcakes eather……
bk on topic: wtg mininova
Minninova & TPB – All of My Net World I know, & They r the BEST!!! Congrats Minni!!!
Roze goes by 10chan.org as the name.. you can tell by the way she talks.. freaking annoying.
TPB supports child porn thats why mininova gets more users.
@reacto
TPB supports child porn thats why mininova gets more users.
You have proof of this?
STUPID CUNT
yes, just go to other>pictures pure child porn some of it not all of it. TPB better clean this up
idiot!
yea i know piguglyness is an idiot everyone knows TPB supports child porn
@24 reacto, 26 bigbagofCP
No evidence of this whatsoever.
then you are blind Anonymous
@bigbagofCP
Hearsay, hearsay, merely ’tis more hearsay.
The best thing about Mininova that I have noticed is that the site looks clean in terms of layout.I haven’t come across any porn pop-ups yet which makes browsing even nicer.
As for TPB …it still rocks.So often I have searched for a not so popular or niche file ..and no matter which website I have downloaded the torrent from..it still is being tracked by TPB.That makes it different from others.
The one thing that truly sucks abt TPB is their ‘ Search engine ‘.False results or no results most of the time.Search for it in Torrentz.eu..voila its there…hosted by TPB themselves !!!
@30 akademos
Those “false results” are because The Pirate Bay searches the description as well as the title. If you want to search only the titles, then you can choose the option to search only the title on The Pirate Bay.
Guys
You really should stop b**tching about which site is better.
Both ourselves and TPB crew have a great relationship – there is NO rivalry what so ever or hatred between the two of us. We help each other out and support each other where we can. TPB Crew rock :)
TPB is an awesome site and have great staff – but this article is about Mininova haha dunno why you are turning the comments into “NO this site is better” ha
Okay well I don’t know what to say. This article is really bad. You guys at torrentfreak.com really do glorify Mininova. Don’t forget that Mininova is just a meta-search engine, It has no tracker of its own. If it was to go down there would be no loss. But say a site like Demonoid.com was to go down you would loss hundreds of thousands of torrents (As to history has shown).
Stop ass kissing and give us good content!
One of the reasons Mininova is larger than TPB is that Mininova tends to have the French, German, Italian and Spanish version of just about everything, plus local content from these countries. Whereas TBP has a heavy focus on Anglo-saxon and Scandinavian material.
@reacto
“TPB supports child porn thats why mininova gets more users.”
Go crawl back into the hole you came from, pedo. I can only imagine how many gigabytes of CP they’d find on your hard drive.
TPB is a tracker.
Mininova is a torrent search site.
Apples versus oranges…
20% are fake torrents
Mininova ftw
only problem is that every other torrent @mininova is fake!!!
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