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.
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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
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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
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- 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!
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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?
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