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Bram Cohen to Release BitTorrent Search Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

AI Playground writes "Within two weeks, a BitTorrent search engine will be available at BitTorrent.com. From the Wired News article: 'Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol.'"

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  1. RIAA to release lawsuit in two weeks. by mspohr · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... should give them enough time.

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    1. Re:RIAA to release lawsuit in two weeks. by Davis+Bacon · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dude obviously needs to eat, and he's making a sponsored search engine. All I can say is "kaching".

      Is this another damned KDE utility? Don't we already have enough caching utilities?

      -Jam

  2. Categorized results? by Nytewynd · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if they are going to make it super easy for the FBI, and just let them type in "Illegal Downloads". The only saving grace is that the list will be so long it will probably freeze up the FBIs network.

    A search engine is a decent idea, but if you can't find your files already, you aren't doing something right. I'm not sure BitTorrent is the kind of thing that should be catering to the dumb computer user. Part of the reason it hasn't been locked down totally is because the masses haven't figured it out. Make it as easy to use as Napster, and it will be shutdown as fast as possible.

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