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TorrentFly enters the multi-site torrent search fray
There are several options out now for users that want to search several engines at once for torrrent downloads. My current favorite is still uSniff, but I'm always on the lookout for something newer and better.
Thanks to a persistent commenter, I found out about TorrentFly this morning and decided to check it out.
TorrentFly will search up to twelve sites at once (Sumotorrent, Mininova, PirateBay, Monova, NewTorrents, SeedPeer, Fenopy, TorrentZ, MyBitTorrent, BtJunkie, TorrentHound, Idealtorrent) and you can select which engines you'd like to search.
You're also able to set your preferred column to sort and number of results per page. Clicking any column heading will re-sort your results by health, name, size, seeds, peers, or engine.
I did have a few problems with Sumotorrent results linking to a 404 page, but that may be more to do with Sumo than TorrentFly. Other engines all worked very well, directing me to the corrent torrent download page.
Users that had a beef with uSniff's weird, orange search bar will no doubt prefer TorrentFly's more traditional white version.
There's also a realtime filter (for operations like weeding out just "2009" torrents from my original Mandriva search). It works in an instant, and is very helpful when sifting through large numbers of results. Category tabs are also presented to help you pinpoint a specific type of file.
Torrentfly's clean interface, speed, and customization options may just be enough to make me switch. Give it a try, and let your fellow DS readers know what you think!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Faiakes said 3:15PM on 10-10-2008
This looks like a clone of nowtorrents.
In fact, it only has different colours and it returns the same results.
Lame...
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Doranwen said 11:39AM on 10-12-2008
Agreed. I use NowTorrents all the time, and it doesn't seem to do anything different from it. Plus, NowTorrents has friendlier colors and graphics, imho.
Toni said 3:33PM on 10-10-2008
http://search.io/torrents/ does a very good job too
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Jonathan Harford said 7:41PM on 10-10-2008
Wake me up when there's a search engine that won't show me "Dance of the Dead", a Queen discography, and Elton John's Greatest Hits when I search for "Night of the Living Dead".
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aanidaani said 11:04PM on 10-10-2008
http://www.pizzatorrent.com/ is still the best, although it now has links to the Monova tracker, which is just full of spam.
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Faiakes said 11:08AM on 10-11-2008
Actually I think it's quite poor.
It returns dozens of results unrelated to your search.
I'm not that crazy about nowtorrents but at least it doesn't innundate me with (much) crap.
Mike said 2:10AM on 10-11-2008
Haha thanks very much Lee Mathews, i believe i posted that link yesterday! Awesome to see you did a post about it.
Greetz, Mike!
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Peter said 4:21AM on 10-11-2008
Great find Lee, love the site. I dont understand whats so great usnif, its kinda crappy actually. Lacks a lot of features that TorrentFly.org does offer. Atm its my personal favorite!
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Jash Sayani said 4:39AM on 10-11-2008
YouTorrent does the same thing... www.youtorrent.com
Except it has a better interface...
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Abdo said 2:09PM on 10-11-2008
Didn't work that well for me.
Better off sticking to searching individually
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Bob said 5:28AM on 10-18-2008
Check out http://www.torrentbug.com
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