‘Mininova’ the 9th Most Googled Word in 2006

Written by Smaran on December 19, 2006 

Google has released its annual year-end Zeitgeist. Amazingly, the word ‘mininova’ ranks 9 on Google’s list of most queried terms in 2006.

The year-end Zeitgeist is a collection of data, trends and search patterns that reflect the activity on Google’s search engine in the past year. A look at this year’s top 10 queries reveals the following terms:

    Google Zeitgeist
  1. bebo
  2. myspace
  3. world cup
  4. metacafe
  5. radioblog
  6. wikipedia
  7. video
  8. rebelde
  9. mininova
  10. wiki

As you can see, ‘mininova’ was the 9th most searched for word on Google this year. There could be many reasons behind this, but the most obvious seems to be the fact that most people, including myself, initially type in ‘mininova.com’, but then realise that the site at that URL is not what we were looking for, and head to Google to find the real mininova located at mininova.org.

That’s definitely not the sole reason though, mininova has been steadily growing and is ranked among the top 3 BitTorrent sites along with The Pirate Bay and Torrentspy. In March of this year, mininova was leading the race, but in May we published an Alexa traffic rank comparing the three sites which put Torrentspy in the lead. Shortly after that, mininova passed 400 million downloads mark.

It’s quite obvious that more and more people are starting to use BitTorrent. Getting ranked as one of the most queried words on Google is possibly one of the highest honours any website can receive. It indicates that more than just a small niche of people are out there searching for it. We at TorrentFreak believe that mininova has become popular by word of mouth, more than anything.

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7 Responses

1 Feb 22, 2007 at 01:00 by ubisuck

It must be noted that the web site Mininova (mininova.org) is in no way connected to the scam web site that uses the same name but with the .com extension, neither does the site have any connection to the so-called BitTorrent Client using the ‘mininova’ name.

2 Oct 10, 2007 at 13:27 by adam

hiaaaaaaaaaaa

3 Oct 11, 2007 at 10:46 by snw

I’m still wondering why people give so many value to the Alexa ranking. It’s quite obvious that this ranking is really NOT accurate!

As noted on the alex website: The alexa rank is set only by users who use the alexa toolbar. Who uses this really useless toolbar anyway?:S

4 Nov 10, 2007 at 01:33 by jim

bull shit porn would of been #1

5 Dec 24, 2007 at 16:00 by Anonymous

have not of

6 Feb 14, 2008 at 23:28 by porn mourn

yes it is

7 Jul 08, 2008 at 21:46 by Sebastian

This list is censored because porn would have been the number 1 word searched.

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