New and Promising BitTorrent Sites
Written by Ernesto on February 14, 2008BitTorrent’s popularity is still growing, and new sites are launched every day. Unfortunately it is impossible to feature all the new sites here, so we decided to post a selection of BitTorrent sites that look promising, or offer something new.
PizzaTorrent
PizzaTorrent is a meta-search engine, inspired by the enormous success of another site we introduced last month, YouTorrent. The site has a similar look and feel as YouTorrent, but it also includes some unique features. One of the most significant differences is that it sorts the torrents by category. In the sidebar you can also click on one of the indexed sites to perform a direct search.
The search results are presented in a clean way and ordered by rank, which is the output of a formula that looks at the torrent name, keywords, date added, number of seeds and seeds vs. peers. The administrator of PizzaTorrent told TorrentFreak that his site is indeed based on the YouTorrent concept, but that he will continue to add more unique features.
Bit-Tunes
Bit-Tunes is a BitTorrent /iTunes mashup based on the popular blog platform Wordpress. The site collects information from iTunes on both the newly released and most popular albums available on the iTunes store. It fetches the album cover in high-resolution from online stores such as Amazon, and matches every album dynamically with torrent downloads available on various BitTorrent sites.
The Bit-Tunes administrator told TorrentFreak: The purpose of the site is to discover great music albums and new artists, and download music DRM-free without the need to go through the iTunes Store or own an iPod. I have a bunch more ideas of which contextual information can be added to every album (buy it on Amazon, preview / listen online), to provide an even better user experience.
LookTorrent
LookTorrent is another BitTorrent meta-search engine that was launched recently. The difference with PizzaTorrents is that search results are presented in tabs, similar to Torrent-Finder. Each tab shows the search results of one BitTorrent site, and you can select which sites you want to search. In addition, LookTorrent allows users to rate the sites and it displays search suggestions at the bottom of every results page.
ShareByte
ShareByte is different from most other search engines because it is a community driven site where users add and edit the torrents. At the moment is is still a bit low on content, but the idea might appeal to people who like to participate. All the files are categorized and links to subtitles, video trailers, IMDB ratings and more are included, or can be added by users.
In addition, the site offers some useful features to registered users, as they can add torrents to their favorites and rate the audio and video quality of the files.
As said before, BitTorrent meta-search engines can be really useful, but they are useless if all the sites they index host the same .torrent files. A bit more diversity might be a good idea, especially in the long term.
Do you know any other new BitTorrent sites that are worth visiting? Leave a comment and share it with us…
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RuFiles.ru - russian promising tracker
bit-tunes sounds quite attractive but it says “database error” …
so, torrentz.com still rulz
[quote comment="289954"]We have enough search engines now. We need another tracker… or better methods of maintaining anonymity.[/quote]
I agree with you!!!!!
I have started blogging about the torrents (music + movies) which I like, with links and opinions. People can use it as a source of filtered recommendations. It’s at http://torrenttimes.wordpress.com
Torrentz is all wht you need…. you don`t really need to search in dozens of engines…. let torrentz do it for you.
Oh good, another search engine.
All these new torrent sites are like a shotgun, one cock and they blow.
scrapetorrent.com seems to do a good trick by scraping a few popular torrent sites. Although it seems to be quite ad-heavy, results nonetheless are very good.
you need java installed to run pizza torrent. I’ll stick with the 20,000 other search engines that don’t.
look at
http://www.btarena.org/
Unless you go directly to the tracker sites themselves(ie Pirate Bay etc), these three sites should help with most searches of public torrents;
Isohunt.com
Easy to use and will give a lot of hits. Downside is that torrent descriptions/comments are absent…
Now, if they just took some time to clean obsolete/fake torrents…
Mininova.org
Many hits, good layout/torrent descriptions, good moderating
Btmon.com
Fast search results and lots of hits.
Also, if you hit one of the tracker urls in the tracker list for a torrent, you get most of that trackers torrents…good to keep in mind if search/browse is disabled for any unregistered on a specific tracker…
Lacks in moderation though…
Don’t use this site without very good adblockers…
Of course, this apples to the general average of torrents, not necessarily for a given segment; if you for example specialize in anime, this combo, in addition to the above ones, is recommended;
Animesuki.com
Anirena.com
TokyoTosho.com
NyaaTorrents.org
Once again, this applies to the general anime, specific niches might require yet other combo’s…
Someone ought to make a treepad file of torrent trackers/search sites, sorted after the specific areas, and somehow keep that updated online…
As it is now, most are just each others copies, with same output, and that just makes things unnnecessarily messy…
[quote comment="290120"]Thou shalt covet a high speed connection.
Thou shalt pillage, pirate and plunder.
Thou shalt download all copyright material.
Thou shalt buy a new large hdd when old hdd runneth over.
Thou shalt circumvent copy protection.
Thou shalt not buy commercial cd nor dvd.[/quote]
aaaaaaamen.
Thou shall have your private tracker ratio tatooed on thine scrotum.
Thou shalt not covet a custom title, unless it be something like, “GonadBrains.”
Thou shalt hit “refresh” on the “browse” page at least 600 times per day.
i quothe these holy words as my lord gawd’s mostly holiest scripture, thank you oh gawd for your blessingturds of wizdom! amen!
seedmore.org
fast seeds
new things up fast
and one of the best irc chans ever
kingnothing
http://www.seedmore.org
torrents.to
[quote comment="289953"]Really the only thing torrent related that I am looking for is the return of Demonoid[/quote]
Exactly. Which basically means a site with its own tracker, its own userbase and an interesting interface with a database search which actually works!
[quote comment="290507"]Unless you go directly to the tracker sites themselves(ie Pirate Bay etc), these three sites should help with most searches of public torrents;
Isohunt.com
Easy to use and will give a lot of hits. Downside is that torrent descriptions/comments are absent…
Now, if they just took some time to clean obsolete/fake torrents…
Mininova.org
Many hits, good layout/torrent descriptions, good moderating
Btmon.com
Fast search results and lots of hits.
Also, if you hit one of the tracker urls in the tracker list for a torrent, you get most of that trackers torrents…good to keep in mind if search/browse is disabled for any unregistered on a specific tracker…
[/quote]torrentz.com overlaps the last two and includes a lot of others.
FL / TB / VIP (need i say more?)
stop posting about all the same web20 crap meta searches. the oldest and best one to compare search results is still http://www.torrents.to
people, pirate bay hands down.
case closed.
thanks for the http://torrentstorage.com link
It VERY nice. Its an actual tracker and not as search engine as well
Yes I agree with the comments in regards to Meta Search engines being junk.
Why this site doesn’t give this space to sites like Torrentstorage.com and others similar who are trying to build a user based site with GOOD torrents and not fakes/passworded and trojan filled is beyond me.
Anyhow those who are using the good tracker sites out there know where it’s at and it is unfortunate that newer users of .torrent are seeing this sort of crap to use for a method of a good community of how torrents are to be used - since these are the sites that continue to promote basically the hit and runs
I will continue to enjoy sites like http://www.torrentstorage.com and scenemachine and a few others and hope the lot of you do the same
Submit your torrent search sites at Sputtr.com. Link: http://www.sputtr.com/submit.php
[quote comment="289909"]Do we really need more torrent meta-search engines?[/quote]
No, we need just one of them to import
comments, or atleast links to it. Isohunt promised it years ago, and seem useless without it.
are there torrents that post only old movies & TV shows ?
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