Search Engines with Torrents : 

The Torrents files have an extension that ends on “.torrents” to be used by the BIT Torrents protocol, with the objective of been able to share files that are in different formats among users of the P2P software net (Ares, Emule, Limewire, Kazaa). One of its advantages in contrast to the other protocols from the P2P programs is its higher download speed, a greater amount of users, which increases exponentially the chances of finding a file, which, at the same time, results in a higher download speed.

Even though it makes more possible the existence of several viruses of files that contain malicious codes with their contents, this is because the users are free to upload their files to share in the net and most of them contain illegal materials.

This protocol is preferred for those companies who wish to publish some advance that is interesting for a lot of people in a free way and sees that this net is much concurred, so they load it so it can be massively downloaded from all over around the world.

Nowadays there is a great diversity of web sites that support files with “.Torrents” extensions. Formerly, a search engine which was specialized in making lists of concurrence to web sites (such as the popular About.com), determined a list of the 35 most relevant Torrent search engines in all the net, taking as reference some surveys and comments made through the virtual way. As follows, one of the main search engines in the media will be shown:

isoHunt  works in the net with more than 140 000 Torrents, most of its contents have been verified by their moderators, which can prove their authenticity and, also, that there is no mistake or error in the downloaded files.

Mininova is another torrents search engine, it started functioning from 2005 and in the year 2008 it had more than 550 000 torrents in its data base. This web site does not allow the uploading of pornographic material and it supervises the visitor’s IP; most of its files count with copyrights.

Torrent Box counts with more than 35 000 Torrents, and there you can find videos, games, music, image packages, any kind of program, movie or the complete season of your favorite series in several video formats. It also counts with an index of web sites on its own portal.

Torrent Typhoon it comes with its own source code, which is exclusive for the search of BIT torrent in a much easier way, even though, right now, it has some law issues, which is why they were forced to sell their source code, without shutting down their site, but their source code was the element that characterized them.

Torrent Spy was a famous Torrents search engine, in which you were able of finding several files; but, currently, it is no longer available because it was condemned to pay 110 million dollars for not respecting thousands of files that had copyrights. It is commonly known that there are several search engines under a microscope in case any of them breaks the law and distributes copies of a file without the author’s authorization.

Torrent Matrix is a search engine which is very much alike Torrent box, besides from counting with 35 000 torrent files, which are distributed between games, programs, movies, music, emulators, etc. According to some comments, it is strongly recommended to download videos there.

You must always take into consideration that, as well as P2P programs, these search engines are even more dangerous, because you only need to type down the address of an infected file and not all of its contents. To use these search engines you need a P2P program and an antivirus software, so you are able to stop the intrusion of malicious codes into your computer after you have downloaded a file of unknown origin.