Comments on: The Largest BitTorrent Search Engine on the Web? http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/ Torrent News, Torrent Sites and the latest Scoops Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:30:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: N.Tary http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-401268 N.Tary Fri, 30 May 2008 04:23:06 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-401268 btjunkie have reached 2 millions torrents... btjunkie have reached 2 millions torrents…

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]]> By: Ninjabear http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-102711 Ninjabear Sun, 20 May 2007 10:39:54 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-102711 I get the bit about unseeded torrents being listed, but actually it's a myth that there is a paid service on BTJunkie. If you register you will see that those so called locked torrents can be accessed, but they are from different trackers. You visit the site, obtain a login and then input the details to your VIP account in BTJunkie. This means that they can list torrents downloadable only from other websites, meaning that their listings are far larger. The only problem with this system is that even when you can get a login to these sites (and a lot of them require invitation) they tend to remove you for non-activity. I get the bit about unseeded torrents being listed, but actually it’s a myth that there is a paid service on BTJunkie.

If you register you will see that those so called locked torrents can be accessed, but they are from different trackers. You visit the site, obtain a login and then input the details to your VIP account in BTJunkie. This means that they can list torrents downloadable only from other websites, meaning that their listings are far larger.

The only problem with this system is that even when you can get a login to these sites (and a lot of them require invitation) they tend to remove you for non-activity.

]]> By: Torrentspy Most Popular BitTorrent Site of 2006 at Torrentfreak http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-35803 Torrentspy Most Popular BitTorrent Site of 2006 at Torrentfreak Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:51:13 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-35803 [...] The award for the most effective advertising campaign goes to BTjunkie. Overnight they jumped from a traffic rank of 20.000 to a spot among the 2.000 most visited sites, and they managed to keep the people in. [...] [...] The award for the most effective advertising campaign goes to BTjunkie. Overnight they jumped from a traffic rank of 20.000 to a spot among the 2.000 most visited sites, and they managed to keep the people in. [...]

]]> By: Mexico501 » Blog Archive » The Largest BitTorrent Search Engine on the Web? http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-17486 Mexico501 » Blog Archive » The Largest BitTorrent Search Engine on the Web? Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:42:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-17486 [...] Page Summary: A week ago several respectable sources including Digg and Slashdot reported that Btjunkie is the largest BitTorrent search site on the web. The way Btjunkie indexes and collects their torrents is different from other sites. Some actively remove dead or unseeded torrents, others choose to keep them for a while. Btjunkie is not the only site with unseeded torrents, but the percentage is definitely higher compared to some sites in the top 10 list.read more | digg story [...] [...] Page Summary: A week ago several respectable sources including Digg and Slashdot reported that Btjunkie is the largest BitTorrent search site on the web. The way Btjunkie indexes and collects their torrents is different from other sites. Some actively remove dead or unseeded torrents, others choose to keep them for a while. Btjunkie is not the only site with unseeded torrents, but the percentage is definitely higher compared to some sites in the top 10 list.read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: conexionzero.com.ar » Blog Archive » Comparando búsquedas para BitTorrent http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-16184 conexionzero.com.ar » Blog Archive » Comparando búsquedas para BitTorrent Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:37:37 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-16184 [...] Pero ahora, en TorrentFreak se ha puesto en discusión sobre cuál motor de búsqueda sería el más grande. [...] [...] Pero ahora, en TorrentFreak se ha puesto en discusión sobre cuál motor de búsqueda sería el más grande. [...]

]]> By: legal? http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-15231 legal? Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:25:05 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-15231 I do alot of bit torrent, all audio from trade friendly bands which is perfectly legal.......Is downloading a tv show legal? I do alot of bit torrent, all audio from trade friendly bands which is perfectly legal…….Is downloading a tv show legal?

]]> By: BTJunkie Affiliate http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14938 BTJunkie Affiliate Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:33:48 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14938 4. Renald is not directly affiliated with BTJunkie. Renald contacted us that he was writing a comparison and was amazed at what he had found at BTJunkie. After answering some of his questions he forwarded us a copy of what he was going to post and we decided to get right behind it! I don't see how you would call this a "cheap marketing trick"! We would be stupid not to support it. We also thought Renald seemed like one of the most knowledgeable torrent gurus around, not just because he found our site to be the best, but because of the accuracy and knowledge he seemed to have about the BitTorrent world in general. We noticed a great deal of smearing in the comments on both Slashdot and Digg. What's more interesting is we found _identical_ posts that were submited to multiple comment sources! (Smear Campaign!) Do not listen to these people! They run their own sites or they are tech-savy know-it-alls that couldn't even write a simple C program. As a final note I would like to add that not only did the founder of Digg support our site but the founder of Slashdot (CmdrTaco) also supported the blogs findings. If you find yourself torn between who to believe, let me reliterate your two sources: For BTJunkie: Founder of Slashdot, Founder of Digg Against BTJunkie: Jealous BitTorrent Site Owners, Torrentfreak 4. Renald is not directly affiliated with BTJunkie. Renald contacted us that he was writing a comparison and was amazed at what he had found at BTJunkie. After answering some of his questions he forwarded us a copy of what he was going to post and we decided to get right behind it! I don’t see how you would call this a “cheap marketing trick”! We would be stupid not to support it. We also thought Renald seemed like one of the most knowledgeable torrent gurus around, not just because he found our site to be the best, but because of the accuracy and knowledge he seemed to have about the BitTorrent world in general.

We noticed a great deal of smearing in the comments on both Slashdot and Digg. What’s more interesting is we found _identical_ posts that were submited to multiple comment sources! (Smear Campaign!) Do not listen to these people! They run their own sites or they are tech-savy know-it-alls that couldn’t even write a simple C program.

As a final note I would like to add that not only did the founder of Digg support our site but the founder of Slashdot (CmdrTaco) also supported the blogs findings. If you find yourself torn between who to believe, let me reliterate your two sources:

For BTJunkie: Founder of Slashdot, Founder of Digg

Against BTJunkie: Jealous BitTorrent Site Owners, Torrentfreak

]]> By: BTJunkie Affiliate http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14743 BTJunkie Affiliate Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:11:40 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14743 I am an affiliate of BTJunkie and have been sent to bring clarity to some of the statements made by Torrentfreak and other BitTorrent site operators. 1. BTJunkie has UNIQUE TORRENTS!!! Try uploading the same torrent twice? Try downloading a torrent from BTJunkie and uploading it. It won't let you because our system only allows a unique combination between announce URLs and hash. This allows users to submit custom versions of announce URLs. Some people have claimed this causes our stats to be inflated, but we have taken a count of only unique hashes and we have a 98% unique database. The only time you will see these different versions of announce lists is on the most popular torrents, that is why these people that don't understand our system come up with this conception that there are duplicates like this the whole way though, but it's just not true. As for Flippy's comment about torrentz being at 1.6 mil, if we counted torrents the way you thought we did we would almost be at a billion. To give Flippy a relevant comparison of BTJunkie's database compared to his we took a count of every torrent BTJunkie has that is actively scraped with a least 1 seed: 370,753. (Torrentz has 166,000). I'm not trying to discredit your site Flippy as you have done to ours; I think you have done a great job! 2. BTJunkie DOES NOT keep dead torrents. On September 25th btjunkie had 965,000 torrents and today (Oct. 9) it only has 975,000 torrents, if you add an average of 5,000 torrents a day I think a torrent or two is getting deleted here! We do continue to list active (scraped) torrents that don't have any seeds because the leechers _can_ make a seed again! Why not leave the possibilities open to the users? We delete torrents when they can no longer be scraped for several days. Also, you can add "seed>0″ to your query at btjunkie and it will only show seeded torrents. 3. BTJunkie has search based RSS feeds: btjunkie.org/rss.xml?query= Torrentfreak claims that he thought 9/10 for BTJunkie was absurd because it doesn't have searched based RSS (one feature and your out)! Although I agree that our features are not as rich as some and this probably was a higher rating then we disserved. We have concentrated so much on our crawler that we feel we are lacking in site features, but you will start to see some great new features as we feel our crawler is almost perfected enough for now. I am an affiliate of BTJunkie and have been sent to bring clarity to some of the statements made by Torrentfreak and other BitTorrent site operators.

1. BTJunkie has UNIQUE TORRENTS!!!

Try uploading the same torrent twice? Try downloading a torrent from BTJunkie and uploading it. It won’t let you because our system only allows a unique combination between announce URLs and hash. This allows users to submit custom versions of announce URLs. Some people have claimed this causes our stats to be inflated, but we have taken a count of only unique hashes and we have a 98% unique database. The only time you will see these different versions of announce lists is on the most popular torrents, that is why these people that don’t understand our system come up with this conception that there are duplicates like this the whole way though, but it’s just not true. As for Flippy’s comment about torrentz being at 1.6 mil, if we counted torrents the way you thought we did we would almost be at a billion. To give Flippy a relevant comparison of BTJunkie’s database compared to his we took a count of every torrent BTJunkie has that is actively scraped with a least 1 seed: 370,753. (Torrentz has 166,000). I’m not trying to discredit your site Flippy as you have done to ours; I think you have done a great job!

2. BTJunkie DOES NOT keep dead torrents.

On September 25th btjunkie had 965,000 torrents and today (Oct. 9) it only has 975,000 torrents, if you add an average of 5,000 torrents a day I think a torrent or two is getting deleted here! We do continue to list active (scraped) torrents that don’t have any seeds because the leechers _can_ make a seed again! Why not leave the possibilities open to the users? We delete torrents when they can no longer be scraped for several days. Also, you can add “seed>0″ to your query at btjunkie and it will only show seeded torrents.

3. BTJunkie has search based RSS feeds: btjunkie.org/rss.xml?query=
Torrentfreak claims that he thought 9/10 for BTJunkie was absurd because it doesn’t have searched based RSS (one feature and your out)! Although I agree that our features are not as rich as some and this probably was a higher rating then we disserved. We have concentrated so much on our crawler that we feel we are lacking in site features, but you will start to see some great new features as we feel our crawler is almost perfected enough for now.

]]> By: Erik http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14609 Erik Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:46:31 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14609 @Tyrant: Mininova doesn't scrap any other torrent site. All torrents on mininova are user uploaded. @Tyrant: Mininova doesn’t scrap any other torrent site. All torrents on mininova are user uploaded.

]]> By: trythis http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14541 trythis Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:49:43 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14541 Try www.torrentz.com, it searches multiple sites and then lists all the results so you can load trackers from multiple websites for the same torrent. it has a lot of dead torrents, but just be smart and don't download those ones. it also has verified torrents so you can get past the misnamed crap. Try http://www.torrentz.com, it searches multiple sites and then lists all the results so you can load trackers from multiple websites for the same torrent. it has a lot of dead torrents, but just be smart and don’t download those ones.

it also has verified torrents so you can get past the misnamed crap.

]]> By: Nathan http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14498 Nathan Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:35:46 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14498 Screw BT Junkie, Mininova, torrentz.com and fenopy rocks Screw BT Junkie, Mininova, torrentz.com and fenopy rocks

]]> By: horo http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14469 horo Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:33:54 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14469 Each programmer know, that search query for example for words "prison break" can return different results, depending on mysql query, we at http://www.bitdig.com are using match and index, so there are results displayed not in "like" format. And also groupping by hash is very important. Our test: prison break search query returned 244 results. maybe 20% are dead. Each programmer know, that search query for example for words “prison break” can return different results, depending on mysql query, we at http://www.bitdig.com are using match and index, so there are results displayed not in “like” format. And also groupping by hash is very important.

Our test: prison break search query returned 244 results. maybe 20% are dead.

]]> By: The Largest BitTorrent Search Engine on the Web? « Digged Stories http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14459 The Largest BitTorrent Search Engine on the Web? « Digged Stories Sun, 08 Oct 2006 08:20:56 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14459 [...] read more | digg story [...] [...] read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: Jayn http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14446 Jayn Sun, 08 Oct 2006 07:23:12 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14446 but i can definitely say that btjunkie have me results for some stuff which others like torrentz, etc did not. i found a lot of stuff there which i would not have at other regulars like mininova, tspy, etc u must be right in what ur saying. just wanted to say that btjunkie is working for me but i can definitely say that btjunkie have me results for some stuff which others like torrentz, etc did not.
i found a lot of stuff there which i would not have at other regulars like mininova, tspy, etc
u must be right in what ur saying. just wanted to say that btjunkie is working for me

]]> By: Tyrant http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14436 Tyrant Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:39:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14436 Actually its pointless to scrape a scrape... Their practices are totally just a circle-jerk (and their the ones left eating the "pie" and the end if you know what I mean). You tell me if this makes any sense to do. mininova scrapes thepiratebay, their by all the torrents from the TRACKER thepiratebay are on the INDEX mininova. Then mybittorrent scrapes thepritatebay. finally fenopy scrapes those SAME torrents from thepiratebay, again producing another duplicate set of the SAME torrent files. Now btjunkies (or should we say jerkies) then scrapes thepiratebay, mininova, AND mybittorrent and fenopy then labels ALL 4 torrents as SEPERATE torrents with seperate stats (which makes no since as they should all have the same stats unless they are just BSing their stats. If you go on to a NORMAL index like mybittorrent, or fenopy you will see that they merge dupilcate torrents so you do not get redundant results, OR if you go to yotoshi or torrentz you will see they similarly match up the contents of the torrents to merge the duplicates rather then falsely inflating their stats to make them self look well stocked. In my opinion this will bite them in the ass when people get frustrated with all the died torrents. My guess is this is not a trustworth site which is why we dont evne bother with scraping them or indexing them... Actually I do not know any indexers or search engines who bother with their junk torrents. Actually its pointless to scrape a scrape… Their practices are totally just a circle-jerk (and their the ones left eating the “pie” and the end if you know what I mean). You tell me if this makes any sense to do. mininova scrapes thepiratebay, their by all the torrents from the TRACKER thepiratebay are on the INDEX mininova. Then mybittorrent scrapes thepritatebay. finally fenopy scrapes those SAME torrents from thepiratebay, again producing another duplicate set of the SAME torrent files. Now btjunkies (or should we say jerkies) then scrapes thepiratebay, mininova, AND mybittorrent and fenopy then labels ALL 4 torrents as SEPERATE torrents with seperate stats (which makes no since as they should all have the same stats unless they are just BSing their stats. If you go on to a NORMAL index like mybittorrent, or fenopy you will see that they merge dupilcate torrents so you do not get redundant results, OR if you go to yotoshi or torrentz you will see they similarly match up the contents of the torrents to merge the duplicates rather then falsely inflating their stats to make them self look well stocked. In my opinion this will bite them in the ass when people get frustrated with all the died torrents. My guess is this is not a trustworth site which is why we dont evne bother with scraping them or indexing them… Actually I do not know any indexers or search engines who bother with their junk torrents.

]]> By: jacen http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14435 jacen Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:22:01 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14435 sadly digg.com is invaded more and more by such "featured advertisments". thing is, that some of them aren't as easy to expose as this ... sadly digg.com is invaded more and more by such “featured advertisments”. thing is, that some of them aren’t as easy to expose as this …

]]> By: HellSpawn http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14434 HellSpawn Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:21:19 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14434 You should've included <a href="http://www.isohunt.com/" rel="nofollow">isoHunt.com</a> in the "search results" test. I found 28 instances of "prison break s02e06 hdtv xvid lol" over there. That's somewhat closer than the 9 you found on mininova, or the 7 on torrentz. Regards, -HellSpawn. http://human.nimic.org/ You should’ve included isoHunt.com in the “search results” test. I found 28 instances of “prison break s02e06 hdtv xvid lol” over there. That’s somewhat closer than the 9 you found on mininova, or the 7 on torrentz.

Regards,
-HellSpawn.
http://human.nimic.org/

]]> By: nb http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14431 nb Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:47:52 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/the-largest-bittorrent-search-engine-on-the-web/#comment-14431 Their crawler is also highly abusive to other servers at times. Their crawler is also highly abusive to other servers at times.

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