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By: Maguire

Maguire — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:30:37 +0000

I would also say that a good portion of BitTorrent users were initially introduced to these sites by friends. Some of the early Torrent sites required you to become a member of the site for a certain length of time before you could be trusted enough to file share.
It is amazing to see how they have progressed since then.

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By: hello

hello — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:41:39 +0000

i just did a google search for isohunt and piratebay
result for isohunt 15.9 million
thepiratebay 15.4 million
torrentfreak 3 million results
michael jackson 110 million
torrent 289 million
bittorrent 58 million
mininova 6.1 million and will drop in the near future.
these result can be misleading because visitor and index search result are two different thing

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By: lol

lol — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:09:56 +0000

I love it..

We will steam roll these assholes into the ground.

They had there chance to secure there future, instead they did nothing, now we will choose it for them.

By: HayWire

HayWire — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:01:45 +0000

I think we should make a a YouTube movie starring BitTorrent and Google….a love story…how they met…fell in love….etc….we could probably get Sandra Bullock cheap now.

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By: old

old — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:38:17 +0000

@64 same here.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:32:09 +0000

I was introduced to bit torrent when I was trying to download anime. I remember the days when we had 1 bit torrent process per torrent…

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By: rock

rock — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:10:05 +0000

And with google about to unleash their 1gig/sec Internet connection it is just going to make it easier and faster.
http://www.movietorrentblog.com

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By: ZarathustrA

ZarathustrA — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:23:24 +0000

#37 put a bit more thought into why I may have said that.

#11 I agree, pretty much anything would return the same results. That’s what makes it so painful to see that Shutter Island was the movie they went with.

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By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:59:11 +0000

“A site like isoHunt for example, has 13,500,000 million indexed pages on Google”

So is that 13.5 million million? Or a typo?

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By: 133t

133t — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:27:54 +0000

came across my 1st torrent and 1st tracker via google in late 03 :P of course googele has helped in the growth of bit torrent .

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:25:21 +0000

lol i came across my 1st torrent and 1st tracker via google and this is way back in late 03 , hmm the first client i used was ABC, wonders if it is still around :P def google has helped in growth of bit torrent

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By: Cujo

Cujo — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:14:31 +0000

the get a life dude ,, listen up ;)

google and bittorrent offers what no other can offer ,, a vast resource of info and technoligy thats ever so changing ,, it’s no wonder why it attracts so many ;)

you guys should also check out torrent harvester ,, use google ;)

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:20:19 +0000

“that mostly reply on searches within the application”
Typo. Change “reply” to “rely”.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:14:33 +0000

I don’t typically use Google to search for torrents, unless it is something that is rarer than what you typically find at all of the public trackers.

I got into torrents with an anime tracker (scarywater.net), and soon started downloading from Mininova, TPB, and a few other public sites.

Now I use a few public sites (TPB, KickassTorrents, BTJunkie, ISOHunt, Nyaa Torrents) and a couple private ones (Demonoid (semi-public), h33t and BitSoup.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:40:46 +0000

I was looking for information about codecs the other day and all the search results I got back from Google were pages and pages of torrents. Eventually I gave up. I wish search results were grouped into categories that I could click on. Google often gives results that they think you want (due to popularity bias I’m guessing), rather than what you were really looking for. Using advanced search terms like -torrent doesn’t seem to help anymore either.

By: Huggybaby

Huggybaby — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:20:04 +0000

I always google for torrents, before heading to TPB, Demonoid or maybe UG.

For example, google “Mass Effect 2 Torrent”.

By: TheKhaos

TheKhaos — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:10:40 +0000

Google Sucks :(, Bing All the way. EXPLORE!

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@38

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:57:52 +0000

i rarely use google. like anything else, i find a few sites that work and visit them regularly, as i’m sure most users do.

that is, until they get shut down. miss ya’ OiNK! :(

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:36:29 +0000

i never use google to search for my torrents. i only search demonoid and if i cant find it there which is very unlikely then i use a cracked version of bit che which i downloaded from demonoid =]

By: hmm

hmm — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:26:27 +0000

“…it would not be an outrageous claim to say that most of the people who use BitTorrent today were introduced to it through a Google search.”

Id say word of mouth had an equal if not much greater effect than google.

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By: NovaKing

NovaKing — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:07:04 +0000

I would like to state that EZTV does not monetize from P2P, and never plans to. We are not proud of the dark realm of the P2P scene who are purely set out for money. We would also like to state that a fair bit of our traffic does come from Google, just because a small percent of P2Pers know to go to sites direct does not count for the millions of others who have no idea about these sites.

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my 2 cent car crash. — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:50:26 +0000

I found out about BT by word of mouth. From a online pal over a chat program. Back around 2002.
Google helped me found the client and website that I was told about. But it does this for most things.
However google is a godsend to find media/wares no doubt.

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TJ Hooker — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:45:14 +0000

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By: Something Wrong?

Something Wrong? — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:35:52 +0000

I searched for “Shutter Island download” (inc. quotes) on Google and the top 30 returned nearly all scam sites, with a few direct-download sites/search engines -_- but NOT ONE torrent site.

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Your moderation is awaiting a response — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:35:53 +0000

Up yours, TorrentGeek