New and Promising BitTorrent Sites
Written by Ernesto on February 14, 2008BitTorrent’s popularity is still growing, and new sites are launched every day. Unfortunately it is impossible to feature all the new sites here, so we decided to post a selection of BitTorrent sites that look promising, or offer something new.
PizzaTorrent
PizzaTorrent is a meta-search engine, inspired by the enormous success of another site we introduced last month, YouTorrent. The site has a similar look and feel as YouTorrent, but it also includes some unique features. One of the most significant differences is that it sorts the torrents by category. In the sidebar you can also click on one of the indexed sites to perform a direct search.
The search results are presented in a clean way and ordered by rank, which is the output of a formula that looks at the torrent name, keywords, date added, number of seeds and seeds vs. peers. The administrator of PizzaTorrent told TorrentFreak that his site is indeed based on the YouTorrent concept, but that he will continue to add more unique features.
Bit-Tunes
Bit-Tunes is a BitTorrent /iTunes mashup based on the popular blog platform Wordpress. The site collects information from iTunes on both the newly released and most popular albums available on the iTunes store. It fetches the album cover in high-resolution from online stores such as Amazon, and matches every album dynamically with torrent downloads available on various BitTorrent sites.
The Bit-Tunes administrator told TorrentFreak: The purpose of the site is to discover great music albums and new artists, and download music DRM-free without the need to go through the iTunes Store or own an iPod. I have a bunch more ideas of which contextual information can be added to every album (buy it on Amazon, preview / listen online), to provide an even better user experience.
LookTorrent
LookTorrent is another BitTorrent meta-search engine that was launched recently. The difference with PizzaTorrents is that search results are presented in tabs, similar to Torrent-Finder. Each tab shows the search results of one BitTorrent site, and you can select which sites you want to search. In addition, LookTorrent allows users to rate the sites and it displays search suggestions at the bottom of every results page.
ShareByte
ShareByte is different from most other search engines because it is a community driven site where users add and edit the torrents. At the moment is is still a bit low on content, but the idea might appeal to people who like to participate. All the files are categorized and links to subtitles, video trailers, IMDB ratings and more are included, or can be added by users.
In addition, the site offers some useful features to registered users, as they can add torrents to their favorites and rate the audio and video quality of the files.
As said before, BitTorrent meta-search engines can be really useful, but they are useless if all the sites they index host the same .torrent files. A bit more diversity might be a good idea, especially in the long term.
Do you know any other new BitTorrent sites that are worth visiting? Leave a comment and share it with us…
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thanks for these awesome.
Hmm.. Still need more trackers and less search tools.
They all seem pretty worthwhile yet still pretty early to tell for most. Thanks for the sites.
[quote]Hmm.. Still need more trackers and less search tools.[/quote]
I agree.
[quote comment="289905"][quote]Hmm.. Still need more trackers and less search tools.[/quote]
I agree.[/quote]
I agree as well. It is not a good trend that most new BitTorrent sites don’t host .torrent files, let alone host a tracker.
Do we really need more torrent meta-search engines?
People will not use search engines as long as they don’t have any torrents themselves. Why use meta-search someplace else, when you can do it on suprnova.org, TPB or Mininova? Not to mention all the private sites around.
http://gamerseed.net is a promising new legal torrent start-up :)
i only use youtorrent for meta-search :D so, for me it ÅŸs just another website :)
Long live BitTorrent! Down with MPAA.
NO No No..
Piracy must be stopped..
According to Wikipeadia
Keanu Reeves was paid only $20 million + 15 % of the gross on the film The Matrix Reloaded/The Matrix Revolutions.
That’s only $185 million !!
How the hell are actors supposed to live on such little money!!
You pirates are destroying lives!
“…guilty of ‘commercially’ assisting others to commit copyright infringement by ’simplifying’ access to illegal content.”
search engines can’t save themselves if anti-piracy organizations want to kick their asses too.
it doesnt matter you are not hosting torrent file and linking to it. so don’t deceive yourself and be a man.
i’m still looking for a bittorrent site besides isohunt for comics, since demonoid went down :(
You know all these “meta searches” just index the same big sites such as mininova and isohunt. That means whatever “meta search” you choose you’re getting basically the same content. They contribute almost nothing to bittorrent, they’re just out for another slice of the ad revenue pie.
There is something you can do to stop the influx of flashy yet worthless new search engines. Stop blogging about them!
Really the only thing torrent related that I am looking for is the return of Demonoid
We have enough search engines now. We need another tracker… or better methods of maintaining anonymity.
you shouldn’t promote those sites, they dont have a tracker, they just want to make money
Thanks for the info. I checked them out and I really liked the Pizza Torrent. The search was quick to load and indexed by the searchers choice. But they are all pretty good.
I like PizzaTorrent (for the original name) :P but I still prefer YouTorrent because it supports my screen’s low resolution :D
Here’s another new BitTorrent website for all anime fans: http://www.fansub-bt.com.
Why not fork Tor (torproject.org) and create a new onion network?
ShareByte.org is looking really promising
today i came across a site that looks very similar to demonoid, i loved demonoids layout and easy it was to use. so i gave it a try, and im getting great speeds on my movie downloads. i really think this could be the next great community.
http://www.torrentstorage.com
Yes i agree as well, we dont need more search engines, christ theres enough as it is.
More search engines is completely pointless at this point with BT, get on some real sites people and stop slumming in the TPB.
hey found this new torrent site….you can upload just about anything.
http://gamez.exofire.net
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