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Yet another ‘You’ – Youtorrent.com

by Planet Lowyat on 21/01/08 at 12:42 pm

I’m just came across about youtorrent.com when I was reading Techcrunch

early this morning. Youtorrent.com is a fairly new BitTorrent search engine that has been getting positive reviews.

YouTorrent is a meta-search engine that indexes torrents from other sites (such as btjunkie, The Pirate Bay), then prioritizes the results based on the number of seeds and peers each torrent has. For an example a search for something like Windows offers multiple results but most importantly provides the torrent with the most participants first. For those not familiar with BitTorrent, the more seeds and peers a Torrent has, the faster the file will likely download.

As a meta-search engine YouTorrent doesn’t discriminate against legal and pirated content (yes, there is legal content on BitTorrent) so it’s a case of anything goes, and this is both a strength and a weakness. If you do frequently download using BitTorrent you’ll love YouTorrent, it’s quick and the results it gives negates the need to use other sites when searching for Torrents. On the other hand YouTorrent efficiently facilitates video piracy; sure, there’s an ongoing legal argument as to whether a search engine can be held liable for indexing pirated content elsewhere, but that didn’t help TorrentSpy when the Feds came knocking. The site is hosted in the Netherlands and has a Moniker hide your details service running on the Whois record, but chances are if the owners are in the United States, it’s probably only a matter of time until the MPAA or RIAA sends in the lawyers, so give it a shot while you still can.

Personally, I search for the keyword windows and I can easily found ’248 for windows’ from multiple torrent search engine such as Mininova, The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, FullDls, Monova, TorrentReactor, myBittorrent, NewTorrents, Vuze, BitTorrent, LegitTorrents, SeedPeer, & BTjunkie. Work smart and search smart definetely make your life easy.

Look at this statistic! Youtorrent.com reaches 150,000 searches / day within 3 days of launch.

Again, features that are on their way posted on youtorrent.com blog:
- Better blog design (naturally!)
- Information pages (about, help, FAQ .etc)
- Boolean Searches (support for AND, OR and + – )
- Linux Firefox Support
- Static Cached Results Pages
- Advanced Search Features
- Engine Customization Options
- More Engine Selections
- Official Firefox Search Plugin

So, what ae you waiting for? Search for Mr.Chua now!

Source: Techcrunch