Search multiple BitTorrent trackers with NowTorrents

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Search multiple BitTorrent trackers with NowTorrents

by Brad Linder Mar 7th 2008

Tired of searching a dozen different BitTorrent trackers every time you're looking for your 100% legal downloads of open source software? (We're going to assume that's all you look for on BitTorrent sites). NowTorrents is a BitTorrent search engine that lets you search a dozen sites including Mininova and The Pirate Bay.

While NowTorrents is hardly the only multi-site BitTorrent search tool, it does have one nifty feature - it offers a real time search to show you exactly how many seeders and peers are available for each file. The result is that NowTorrents looks a bit like the travel site SideStep, in that search results start popping up right away, but the page will continue to reload with fresh information until all NowTorrents is finished searching all 12 BitTorrent trackers.

[via MakeUseOf]

Tags: bittorrent, mininova, nowtorrents, pirate-bay, tracker

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Calvin said 6:23PM on 3-07-2008

So this is basically youtorrent? Also, your link to the pirate bay just leads to a phishing site ATM.

Josh said 6:37PM on 3-07-2008

ScrapeTorrent > Youtorrent > Everything else.

Bob-o said 8:55AM on 3-11-2008

I disagree.

Isohunt > *, mainly because if the same torrents w/ identical hashes appear on multiple sites, they'll rewrite the torrent file to include ALL the trackers serving the content.

Brad Linder said 6:48PM on 3-07-2008

Sorry, I fixed the link. I should have mentioned that. And someone remind me not to type links from memory without double checking them first. :)

Jeroen said 6:50PM on 3-07-2008

piratebay links work fine man!

Brian said 12:28PM on 3-08-2008

@Jeroen:

shut up

tino said 7:12PM on 3-16-2008

Have you seen their box office torrents feature? its pretty kick ass

link here: http://www.nowtorrents.com/boxoffice

coonj said 11:50AM on 3-18-2008

As tino mentioned, the Box Office feature (with rating system) is a notable difference compared to similar sites, like YouTorrent, PizzaTorrent and ScrapeTorrent

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