Vuze BitTorrent Client Boosts KickassTorrents’ Visitors
Written by Ernesto on November 24, 2009Already making a name for itself by offering new and innovative features, KickassTorrents is a relatively new BitTorrent site that launched just a few months ago. Recently the site quadrupled its traffic, largely thanks to its inclusion in the integrated search engine of the BitTorrent client, Vuze.
The rookie BitTorrent indexer KickassTorrents has been growing steadily since early 2009, but in the last few weeks the site has seen a surge in daily visitor numbers thanks to the BitTorrent client, Vuze.
Unlike most other BitTorrent applications, Vuze has a search feature that returns results from torrent sites within the application itself so users don’t have to use their web browser. With the latest update of Vuze, KickassTorrents was added to the search.
Luckily, the owner of the site was contacted by Vuze beforehand to warn him about the traffic spike that was ahead, and to request some changes to the search template so it could be easily integrated into the client. This warning was indeed necessary, as the site received an additional 100,000 unique visits a day through Vuze.
These are impressive numbers indeed, but not that surprising if you consider that Vuze has more than a million active users that use the client at any given hour of the day. According to Vuze’s Director of Marketing Chris Thun, two thirds of these users utilize the built-in search functionality.
“Our search is a pretty popular feature with over 65% of monthly Vuze users leveraging the convenience and speed of Vuze search. My guess would be that we’re driving a fair amount of traffic to these sites,” Chris told TorrentFreak. Vuze users can download the torrents directly in the client, or visit the website the torrents are listed on.
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Vuze’s integrated search currently uses Mininova and KickassTorrents. The latter replaced BTjunkie in the most recent update of the client. “We liked KickassTorrents’ clean design and layout, and liked the quality of the results coming from their API integration,” said Chris when explaining Vuze’s decision.
“BTJunkie is still an option for users, as it can be added to their default list of search sites simply by clicking ‘add/edit’ in the filters on the right side of the Vuze search results page. In fact, a wide variety of sites can be added to personalize the Vuze results,” he added, referring to the dozens of Vuze search templates that are available online.
There is no doubt that Vuze’s listing of KickassTorrents as the default search engine is a huge deal for the site. BTjunkie on the other hand wasn’t even aware of the fact that they were delisted. With millions of visits every day, a few thousand visits can go easily unnoticed.
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Can anyone get to the site? I keep get problem loading page.
It is down for me.
We’re back. Had a little routing problem but now everything seems to work fine.
I love this site.
not a bad site its ok
Its a great site I must say!
keep up with the nice work guys. And be vewy vewy careful with MAFIAA ;D
Nice site, pity I dont use Vuse for a variety of reasons, but kickass news ;)
2 http://www.eZee.se: Even if you don’t use Vuse you can still visit KickassTorrents.com and use any torrent client you prefer.
Thanks for all the good words guys. Your support really means a lot.
Kick Ass Torrents has been my new favorite site for a while. They have a lot of really helpful features that you don’t find anywhere else, especially the mouseover info on the search results page. Well laid out!
I don’t use Vuze, but I have used the site in the past and found the content pretty good. The search brought up better results than the bay, which is actually how I ended up there (TorrentFly result page).
Good job with the site, and good luck keeping it going in the future.
As your “Support Us” page suggests, i’ve added your link to my blog ;-)
Mininova banned me for insipid reasons…. so I think I have a new home…..well at least so long as the registered users arent as dumb as alot of the ones on mininova.
That’s the reason why I think it can be dangerous to add a default site to the client search engine, the website can suffer of high traffic.
Same remark to people requesting a default tracker to add to a torrent loaded into the client, the tracker can be out of order fastly.
Has something changed with vuze. When you click music videos. You used to get pages of music videos.
Kickass has impressed me, I think they’re going to be a major player.
cool
I like kickass torrents but unfortunately when they had their free bittorrent proxy httptorrents I never received any email that I got my files dl for me. Kickasstorrents did httptorrents work its problems out? Thanks. Love the site
PUBLIC FTL :P
I checked out the site long back before TF reviewed it…the clean lay out attracted my attention which I thought was a nice alternative to another well designed site like mininova..
But the excitement was short-lived as I discovered more and more fake torrents once I dug deep into it..
This I guess is major problem with lot of other torrent indexing websites which are being launched recently
…some have too many fake torrents bearing names of popular uploaders, some have major reporting issues with hugely bloated number of seeders and leechers…
Since sites like TPB has uploaders ranked and are facilitated with helpful comments/ reviews ( which is also handled well in mininova and btjunkie with active user participations !!! )
Besides the above sites have uploader accounts which helps users to bookmark and go back to check updates ensuring they are not clicking a fake one …
Hence sites like KickassTorrents will have come up with features and solutions to address these problems !!!
One suggestion I have to the kickass admins ( if they are reading this ) would be to include a torrent rating system like BtJunkie or include comments if you are indexing from sites like TPB ( comments which are posted in that site ! )…Otherwise I will still stick to the old horses ( TPB, Mininova AND BtJunkie ) till Demonoid comes back !!!!!!!!
largely thanks to its inclusion to vuze (what about your article on httptorrents)
the owner of the site was contacted by Vuze beforehand to warn him (don’t you mean ask)
2 p2pfreakkk: We have fake/thanks system and comments which actually solve some of the fakes related problems. Also there are community moderators checking the site. We’re are constantly working on fakes problem and it will bother users less and less in time.
@kickasstorrents
Thanks for taking time to read my comment and reverting …
As I said earlier, the site layout is great, look and feel is professional..once the junk torrent indexing becomes better with filtered results …more and more people will become regulars and start recommending the site to others !!!
BTW..the site seems down for quite sometimes now !
I love this site I found it the other weekend and have loved it ever since i liked it so much that i actually registered (I don’t on my other sites)
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I love the layout and design and you will get my visit for many months/years to come.
Fatty112
great site, i only use kickasstorrents and mininova now.
@24 lol you cant use mininova anymore :(
I guess Vuze has to find a paycheck from somewhere…
KAT now no.1 torrent site. Wish demonoid would come back.
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With the collapse of Mininova, I have been searching for a new home. Kickasstorrents appears to be it.
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Mininova banned me for insipid reasons…. so I think I have a new home…..well at least so long as the registered users arent as dumb as alot of the ones on mininova.”
thats a understatement and to bad kickass so desperate for MODs they may just get the losers from minicrapnova, so more then likely its going to turn to be just another crappy site like mini was.
Desperate for mods?? are you kidding me? there staff over there kicksass….
The mods they have rock they are right on hand to answer your question so I have no idea what planet you are on.
No wonder why you were banned lol dumbass.
I am new to torrents and I went on there and joined the forum and got answers to all my questions like pretty much that second.
with the influx of large groups of people they needed to increase the number of mods.
Great site, great staff unlike that jerk fukmininova loser.
bwahahaa thats funny like your really hurt my feelings NOT, kickass will turn out to be just another crappy site like minicrapnova by letting those loser in so talk all the shit you want teddy the dumbshit bear and the one whom couldnt even think of a name, and oh yeah dipshits i was never banned just moved on to better places without ass kissers and scum mods
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Merçi pour ce new site…
Masada-Belgium
I found this site a while back and its private and I love it.
http://www.trackeraccess.org
Reg…is currently open.
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