YouTorrent: Great New BitTorrent Search Engine
Written by Ernesto on January 04, 2008New BitTorrent sites are launched every day, but only a few stand out or have something new to offer. YouTorrent is such a new site; feature-wise it’s just a meta-search engine, but the design and user interface make it one of the best I’ve seen.
YouTorrent is “the world’s first real-time torrent comparison search engine” according to the site itself. The site is a meta search engine, which means that it doesn’t host any torrent files itself. It currently searches 12 sources; Mininova, The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, MyBittorrent, NewTorrents, SuprNova, Monova, Vuze, BitTorrent, LegitTorrents, SeedPeer and BTjunkie.
This list of BitTorrent sites is not extensive, but it covers the three most popular torrent sites. A search for the recently released second part of Steal This Film returns quite a few results which are presented in a clean way. By default the results are ordered by popularity (seeds/peers), but they can be further sorted by date, size, and search engine.
If you can’t find what you were looking for you have the option to check for related and popular searches in the sidebar. At the moment the site has no ads and is pretty fast, but that might change in the future. Overall, for people who like meta search engines, I think that YouTorrent is worth a visit.
More useful BitTorrent sites can be found in our roundup of the 10 most popular BitTorrent sites of 2007. Do you know any other BitTorrent sites with some innovative features that we haven’t covered yet here at TorrentFreak? Let us know and leave a comment.
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Lovely interface! When cruising public trackers, I’m partial to TorrentScan.com but that may change.
Whatever happened to PickyPirate.com? Was looking forward to trying that one out.
Sorting search results by DATE does strange things, e.g. it ranks 1 day old and 1 year old the same. Further, there seems to be no feedback links to alert them to the problem.
The search results themselves seem very robust though.
[quote comment="255410"]
Whatever happened to PickyPirate.com? Was looking forward to trying that one out.[/quote]
The guy behind it couldn’t take the legal pressure (after 1 day) and decided to take it down..
[quote comment="255411"]Sorting search results by DATE does strange things, e.g. it ranks 1 day old and 1 year old the same. Further, there seems to be no feedback links to alert them to the problem.
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I have no contact address either. I stumbled upon this site a few hours ago, and decided to post it since there was no news to report. Let’s hope he will read your comment here.
Nice site but it sometimes displays the wrong file size. However, this is an excellent search engine. Thanks for the info.
awesome site, might be cool if you could select/deselect the engines on the side, and it show/hide the torrents from that engine
Could someone contact me about republishing your BitTorrnt posts?
Charles Knight, editor
AltSearchEngines.com
Read/WriteWeb network
Seems like a cool site. I like it. Seems kinda shady though.
Just a comment about sites. Those sites are ok, i like them because you dont have to sign up for them.
any ways…. i think the two best sites for torrents are torrentfive.com and h33t.
you have to sign up for them, but they have NO viruses, and they have a lot of seeders.
Really good search, I’m impressed. I’m sure they are reading this so here are two suggestions/wishes:
- Keep the search term in the search field so I can modify my search if there are too many results (like if I am looking for a specific episode of a show or version of an app).
- Add Opensearch so I can easily add the search to Firefox.
Other than that, really nice!
hi
[quote comment="255450"]
- Add Opensearch so I can easily add the search to Firefox.[/quote]
searchplugins.net
for the search area put: “http://www.youtorrent.com/tag/?q=TEST”
i must say though:
- using javascript to do the dropshadow on the logo is ridiculous. how hard is that to do in photoshop?
- definitely needs a favicon
@mon: thanks! Didn’t know about that site.
[quote comment="255416"]Nice site but it sometimes displays the wrong file size.[/quote]
yeah, I noticed this as well. was only on 1 or 2 torrents listed out of about 30 though. I really like this site though. And yeah, a favicon would be great.
Thanks TF, I prefer these posts that aid my torrenting as opposed to the ones which are strictly news items. Keep up the great work!
[quote comment="255414"][quote comment="255410"]
Whatever happened to PickyPirate.com? Was looking forward to trying that one out.[/quote]
The guy behind it couldn’t take the legal pressure (after 1 day) and decided to take it down..[/quote]
That sounds like an interesting story. Any chance you’d do an article on it? Exactly what kind of pressure was employed, etc.
Would be useful to anyone thinking of starting their own site to know what they’re going to face, and to the rest of us for knowing what the IP industry is up to.
This looks like a more useful site, though ;) (I tried PickyPirate)
The site was pretty good, but i want it in the firefox search.
I tried to create one at searchplugins.net but they say that they already exist one.
But i cant find it when i search.
:(
real nice and easy to use and looking interface…real fresh lets hope it expands towards the future….i may use this for my main torrent search engine
Site looks nice, but it seems to heavy. My Firefox experienced some time-out while loading the search results. I love http://www.torrentz.com. This site works like a charm
“It currently searches 12 sources; Mininova, The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, MyBittorrent, NewTorrents, SuprNova, Monova, Vuze, BitTorrent, LegitTorrents, SeedPeer and BTjunkie.”
12? Well, that’s nice, welcome to the party and all, but for serious torrent searching get the Torrent Finder Toolbar plug-in for Firefox. Searches well over 200 (count ‘em, 200!) torrent sites. It features a number of filters you can employ for searching and yes, you can also pick and choose which sites to include from a colorful drop-down menu. Filter also by public sites, private sites, English or non-english, genre or type of material specialized in, etc., etc.
Great to see another option added to the pool, but YouTorrent has quite a ways to go to catch up with TorrentFinder.
Check it out here —–>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2755
@ #9 - You don’t have to sign up at h33t.
@ #17 - Read #20.
Seems to have stats for torrents that are from many months ago.
I added an open search plugin for it. So now you can add it to the top right list of search locations in FireFox2, IE7, and any other browser which supports Open Search Plugins. This is nice because you can select YouTorrent for the search engine, then if you ever see something interesting on a page, select the text, then right click and click “Search in YouTorrent”. Very handy. You can find it and more OSPs at http://www.jorgepena.be/open-search/
If only they had a frickin favicon…
Very nice site. Super fast too. Thanks.
hmm, just for curiosity i checked for a specific torrent (Obsidian [GER] - Adventure Game 1996). first of all the search for the exact string doesn’t return any results. when i just search for “obsidian” i find the correct torrent, but date, size, seeds, and peers all all *completely* wrong…
OMG! This is awesome! Now what would make this even better is if it had some kind of mash up that picky pirate had…which btw was a great site..I wonder what happend?
wow #20, great post, thanks a lot matey!
Love it - thanx again, Ernesto! =]
P.S. Nobody bleating on about needing ‘donations’ for ’server costs’ there either.
Weird that, huh..? ;D
I am a mass torrent upload
so site that don’t have me as uploader cannot be good.
I am torrent master
aka torrent savior
looks nice, but it needs triming, and tuning. and addition of more search options.
[quote comment="255540"]I added an open search plugin for it. So now you can add it to the top right list of search locations in FireFox2, IE7, and any other browser which supports Open Search Plugins. This is nice because you can select YouTorrent for the search engine, then if you ever see something interesting on a page, select the text, then right click and click “Search in YouTorrent”. Very handy. You can find it and more OSPs at http://www.jorgepena.be/open-search/
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Didn’t work for me [in IE7 anyhoo], so I wrote a new one (if anyone’s interested?)
P.S. If you’re telling your n00b mates about the site, make sure they don’t go to http://www.newtorrentS.com - it’s a bunch of fuckheads attempting to extort money for uTorrent. WANKERS!
Yea
http://www.torrentz.com & http://www.torrentstorage.com are me new homes
Got care much for the interface of this site
its youtorrent.com not youtorrents.com
So hawt. :(
[quote comment="255643"]its youtorrent.com not youtorrents.com[/quote]
either way i dislike them both
putting a “you” prefix wasn’t the most clever move in the world but as long as the service is working with few problems let the good times roll.
[quote comment="255566"]wow #20, great post, thanks a lot matey![/quote]
Not a problem, glad someone was paying attention. That plug-in is light years ahead of YouTorrent or any other search engine. Happy searching!
If anyone else is interested, read #20 and get yourself the state of the art in torrent searching. Screenshots are there as well.
And no, I don’t have anything to do with it or the people who created it. I’m just a very satisfied user. I’ve found torrents and specialty torrent sites I never would have heard of if not for this terrific Firefox add-on. :D
@31: Alright thanks for the heads up. Although I just tried it in IE7 and it worked, oh well.
Great! Love it.
seems cool, definitely stands out with the simplicity.
youtorrent looks like when you search they are searching in real time them caching the results..clever
btw h33t is good (traker and torrents), unfortunately their site layout is HORRIBLE.
It’s A Trap
[quote comment="255540"]If only they had a frickin favicon…[/quote]
damn. quick turnaround. favicon has landed.
WARNING: If you visit it with JavaScript/Cookies disabled (as I do when I visit unknown sites) it hangs forever saying WAIT. They need to fix this.
Matching is imperfect. If you type multiple terms, it does an OR search. The Internet is a big place. We don’t need OR results: We need AND results.
Also matches root words: e.g. kare will match karen. If I wanted karen, I would have typed “karen”.
Nice idea, but needs work.
It rules. Well, for lazy people like myself at least. =D
[quote comment="255765"][quote comment="255540"]If only they had a frickin favicon…[/quote]
damn. quick turnaround. favicon has landed.[/quote]
Alright, if you remove it from your search plugins, then re-add it, you should see the favicon now. You should also see it at the page too. http://www.jorgepena.be/open-search/
@ 34:
Perhaps you should tell that to the minuscule site YouTube before they become a monopoly with a bad name.
[quote]btw h33t is good (traker and torrents), unfortunately their site layout is HORRIBLE.[/quote]
I just went to that site once and saw the background - it was annoying, slow, and unnessecary. I didn’t go much further.
h33t is a cool site idd however, don’t like that weird background either :x
It slows things down o:
Seems like TF and the frontpage of diggg have knocked some speed off the site aleady :)
Not to be picky, but you seem to have to have scripts turned on for this site to work at all. Why don’t I like that?
Maybe I’m stubborn but I still prefer MNova that way–it has the best tracker and usually the best selection too. YouTorrent is also extremely slow and will probably wind up going to registered accounts (which could be used against you in court) soon…Right, another cool thing about MN: no registration req’d.
As is, I give YT a 3 on a scale of 1/10.
There are already lots of torrent sites offering crappy fake files. I’m sick of these sites. they should do something about fake files. they might block the user names and their IP addresses who post fake files..
doesn’t have booleans…
It’s still a crap if it keep listing demonoid in 80%, or more, in the search results…
demonoid is dead! dead! My god, we’re dead toooooo……….
Like It! Fast, Simple with good results!
[quote comment="255987"]Like It! Fast, Simple with good results![/quote]
Its not fast at all
The bright orange is hard on my eyes. Site looks like it has promise but I’ll stick with torrentz for now.
http://www.onebigtorrent.org/ - One Big Torrent
Pretty good search engine for uncommon items. From the “About” page:
“OneBigTorrent.org is a new place for sharing material that deals with or is relevant to issues of social justice, progressive and radical politics, independent media, ecology. We run a local bittorrent tracker (which we encourage uploaders to use), and we also host torrents from other trackers, as well as ed2K and Magnet links.
There cannot be a formal definition of what content we deem appropriate for upload. If the concepts above don’t suit you, browse the index — you’ll get the idea quickly. We typically remove obscure stuff dealing with UFOs, mind-control, secret societies, Black Helicopters and what have you. The net is full of this bs anyway.”
#22 I installed your plug in for youtorrent.com yesterday but didn’t have a chance to play with it until now. Really nice. I never used the existing small Yahoo search since there was already a larger one on the same page. Your’s is definitely an enhancement in a world of too much junk. Thanks.
[quote comment="256280"]#22 I installed your plug in for youtorrent.com yesterday but didn’t have a chance to play with it until now. Really nice. I never used the existing small Yahoo search since there was already a larger one on the same page. Your’s is definitely an enhancement in a world of too much junk. Thanks.[/quote]
You’re welcome.
@ #37-#61 - Are you telling me that #26 is the only person who actually read the comments? Amazing. Stop b1tch1ng about YouTorrent and get with the program. Read #20 if you want a good torrent search engine.
I still use http://torrentsearch.extra.hu (google powered) as my torrent search engine bcs. nothing indexes better then Google. ;)
Anyway, youtorrent has a nice design but thats pretty all. The searches I’ve done were extremly slow … :|
[quote comment="255467"][quote comment="255450"]
- Add Opensearch so I can easily add the search to Firefox.[/quote]
searchplugins.net
for the search area put: “http://www.youtorrent.com/tag/?q=TEST”[/quote]
Great site, searchplugins, thx.
Nice site, very clean layout.
Another great meta-search site is http://www.flixflux.co.uk which has just been redesigned, so it looks pretty clean too. It’s movies only though.
No thanks, I’ll leave downloading fakes/tojans/password rar files to those who want….
btw.. h33t is excellent, great dwnld speeds and files, but it does have a ugly interface
@ #20-Oh, well. Pearls before swine. You can lead a stubborn a$$ to water, but you can’t make him drink. Stop me before I metaphor again. :P
all you idiots that think sites like this are good…….ya give me major lulz……… and as for the pathetic pile of shit that is h33t…….my god you lot are pathetic…….get yourselves into one decent private tracker like FTN, SCT, TL, SCC and you’re set…….and you’ll get minimal hash fails and IP’s blocked, AND you will max out your connection……..these public dump sites are a scourge and the reason there is so much heat on torrents right now……………
There is another BitTorrent search site http://www.morrent.com/ which works like google in searching, they are now in beta testing.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IF in /usr/home/youtorrent/youtorrent.com/public_html/functions.php on line 177
doesn’t work for me
http://scrapetorrent.com
has been around for a while and works well
http://torrenttyphoon.com has been around a long time and had real-time search since the beginning. Now it uses AJAX which is really nice.
Squabbling is apart of human nature when people fail to realize the power of knowledge, or even deeper if they realize they are defenseless against the knowledge of others. Hence the battle to ban torrent sites. Let those of us who have knowledge pitty for a moment those that would attempt to slow us down. Right or wrong , good or bad, for every torrent site they try to shut down 10 will take its place.
Seems the engine needs some work. You can’t exclude words, example when I search for the russian film Brat and don’t want 1,000,000 entries for Bratz:
brat -bratz
The engine removes the - and then gives me a search display with the results for brat and brats.
http://www.rsstorrents.com is also a good multiple bittorrents sites search engine…
simple & fast
this is merely a clone of torrentz.com
http://torrentscoop.com
Nice and clean.
I wolud suggest a very good alternative
http://www.multitorrent.org.
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Looks like YouTorrent is very limited in that it only searches 8 sites or so, something like piraboogle.com is miles better IMHO
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