BitTorrent to launch Search Engine

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Wired News is reporting that whiz kid inventor 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.

The service was briefy available at http://search.bittorrent.com until late last night after Slashdot readers commented about it's location, after which it was taken offline, it now defaults to an Apache Web Server page.

The service will no doubt be popluar to a horde of ex-napster/kazaa users who illegally trade music and movies online, but in the end, the content industries may find the BitTorrent search engine too useful to mess with. "The copyright owners can now identify the most-trafficked materials that are infringing their copyrights and go after them in a more efficient way," says Lemley. "It's kind of ironic."

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#1 Freakz on 24 May 2005 - 12:54

bugger it, wish it was up right now

#2 Inertia on 24 May 2005 - 13:01

i give it 3 months until it gets shut down.

(5 replies) #3 Ideas Man on 24 May 2005 - 13:06

Damn slashdot people.

#3.1 codezero on 24 May 2005 - 13:23

I was going to say the same thing lol

#3.2 Jugalator on 24 May 2005 - 13:41

There are other torrent search engines.

Try the strange Google search bittorrent search engine.

#3.3 Ava3ar on 24 May 2005 - 13:56

they commented that because its on his site he could be found liable to sueing, thats why it was taken down

#3.4 Erich on 25 May 2005 - 02:05

torrentspy.com is by far the best torrent search engine right now.

#3.5 Ideas Man on 25 May 2005 - 09:43

Don't post things like that, soon the music industry, or some crappy industry will shut it down too. You never know were their eyes are looking to see what to kill next...

(1 reply) #4 Colin-uk on 24 May 2005 - 13:09

its up again

edit: searching doesnt work though

#4.1 zonemen on 25 May 2005 - 06:24

Searching works now.

(3 replies) #5 eAi on 24 May 2005 - 13:12

So, um, I thought Bram didn't support piracy? Is he really trying to give the MPAA an excuse to stick him in court and/or take all his money - I bet they want to.

#5.1 Jugalator on 24 May 2005 - 13:38

While it was up, it didn't seem to promote piracy more than Google does if you append filetype:torrent to your search query.

#5.2 TheSarge on 24 May 2005 - 17:46

I think Bram is just too smart for the MPAA.
He's making it look like he's co-operating with them, but all the while he's making it easier for torrents to be searched. If the MPAA want's to go after Bram, they had better get something on him other than this new service, and Bram knows that. (not so sure the MPAA does.) Way to go, Bram.
Look at it this way: The MPAA can track what movies are most popular on the torrents, but they can't get actual user data or personal data from Bram's site.

#5.3 Erich on 25 May 2005 - 02:09

All bram has to do is add some code in bittorrent that will report every torrent to his search engine and all the statistics etc. Add some dl optimizing code to it as well, and every open source project will just copy+paste the bit of code he added and he'll have an insan search engine. Now if we can just eliminate the need for trackers in a non lame way like exeem.

#6 Jugalator on 24 May 2005 - 13:37

"The copyright owners can now identify the most-trafficked materials that are infringing their copyrights and go after them in a more efficient way"

??

What, by feeding it with a ton of search queries and looking which had most seeders?

Sounds more efficient to just visit a popular tracker and looking at the top list or something.

#7 Dessimat0r on 24 May 2005 - 13:39

Google:

any part of filename + filetype:torrent

#8 PlainLazy on 24 May 2005 - 15:59

At least this will take the spotlight off other torrent sites..right?

(2 replies) #9 Tungsten T on 24 May 2005 - 18:35

Its up again!

http://bitoogleb.com/indexb.php

#9.1 clide on 25 May 2005 - 02:26

I doubt that is it...It gives the same results as adding filetype:torrent to your google search.

#9.2 zonemen on 25 May 2005 - 06:28

The real bittorrent search is up now - http://search.bittorrent.com

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