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YouTorrent goes legit, boring, and up for sale

YouTorrentBitTorrent search engine YouTorrent is for sale, according to TorrentFreak. The news isn't particularly surprising. YouTorrent has become quite popular over the last few months, but for some reason the owners have yet to put advertisements on the site, so it doesn't appear to be making any money. At the same time YouTorrent gets over 10 million visitors per month, which has got to be hell on the company's bandwidth bill.

We'd say YouTorrent shouldn't have a hard time attracting a buyer with a good monetization plan. But YouTorrent kind of shot themselves in the foot on their way to the auction block. The company has removed the majority of BitTorrent trackers from its index, which means you can now only search 100% free and legal torrent sites like Vuze, BitTorrent, and LegalTorrents. In other words, you won't find any cracked software, or illegal music or movie downloads. Sure, the move will help the service avoid lawsuits, but it will probably dramatically reduce YouTorrent's user base as well, which could make the site a heck of a lot less valuable.

If you're looking for a good YouTorrent clone that doesn't suck, check out NowTorrents or PizzaTorrent.

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Search

Search multiple BitTorrent trackers with NowTorrents

NowTorrents
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]

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