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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. Already been done? by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Informative
    First, a printer friendly page

    Second: Torrentsearch.us
    this site already indexes torrents and even has an option to search multiple torrent sites @ once. (beware the enormous java ad)

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  2. torrent searches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Right now I use ISOhunt and Bitoogle.

    Any other good ones out there?

  3. It's already live! by Deaper · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can wait two weeks for them to link it on the homepage or you can search now at search.bittorrent.com

  4. Re:Google isn't enough! by Nahor · · Score: 5, Informative

    Better search with filetype:torrent

  5. Actually... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Informative

    according to the wired article, the search engine will allow "RIAA and friends" to target the uploaders directly and sue them.

    So the search engine will actually become a benefit for the RIAA. Which I'm perfectly OK with, since Cohen never intended BT to be a pirate tool.

  6. Bitoogle by Teja · · Score: 3, Informative

    While you can just access it already by going here you can, in the meantime, use Bitoogle it has been around for quite some time now. It is okay I suppose, personally I just prefer Torrentspy. It has a much larger contribution and a large userbase.

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  7. Re:Kevin Poulsen of the Watchman book? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes. He's been a writer for Security Focus for quite a while.