nsane.forums Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Each and every day hundreds of millions of people scour their favorite BitTorrent search engines for content to download. But what are all these people looking for? Today we present the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2011, a list of the 50 most searched for phrases and keywords on one of the most used public BitTorrent indexes during the past year.During December, all self-respecting search engines produce an overview of the most popular search terms of the past year.These lists give insight into recent trends, and in 2011 Rebecca Black, Google Plus and Ryan Dunn were the fastest rising searches on Google.But what about BitTorrent? With billions of searches every year it’s worth taking a look at the most-entered keywords on the dominant file-sharing network.Unfortunately there is no central database of searches available, but Kat.ph, one of the top 5 torrent sites in terms of visitors, was kind enough to share the most popular search terms of 2011 with us. This list is based on millions of searches and gives an indication of what people were looking for on BitTorrent during the last 12 months.Interestingly, the most searched for terms are not targeted at specific content, but used to discover files instead. “Ita,” “French” and “2011″ make up the top three and are used to find media in Italian, French and from 2011 respectively. The same is true for “DVDrip” and “720p” which are also listed in the top 10.The first search term related to a specific title is “Thor” in 9th place, a title that also ended up in the most pirated movies list of this year. Movie related searches are clearly the most popular among users of the site as we also find “Harry Potter,” “Kung Fu Panda 2,” “Green Lantern” and “Transformers 3″ in the top 20.Traditionally, TV-shows are also much sought after on BitTorrent as well, and that’s no different this year. “Glee” is the most popular TV-related search phrase in 13th place, followed by “True Blood,” “Game of Thrones,” “How I Met You Mother,” “Supernatural,” “House,” “Dexter” and “Breaking Bad” further down the list.Besides movies and TV-shows the list is completed with a few unavoidable adult related searches, and the relatively rare software and game related keywords such as “PSP” (11) and “Windows 7″ (23). Music isn’t all that popular on public BitTorrent indexes, as we find the first and only artist related search is “Adele” in 44th place.Below is the full list of the 50 most-entered search phrases on Kat.ph. This list will be different on other public BitTorrent sites, but we assume that the top searches will be popular on other indexes as well.1. ita2. french3. 20114. ita dvd5. xxx6. dvdrip7. italian8. kickasstor9. thor10. 720p11. psp12. harry potter13. glee14. kung fu panda 215. green lantern16. 1080p17. wwe18. movies19. porn20. transformers 321. cars 222. captain america23. windows 734. true blood25. fast and furious 526. hindi27. sex28. game of thrones29. telugu30. tamil31. rango32. super 833. playboy34. x art35. how i met your mother36. pirates of the caribbean37. x men38. transformers39. mac40. rio41. supernatural42. kickassto43. source code44. adele45. house46. sucker punch47. final destination 548. dexter49. nero50. breaking bad View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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beer Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 BitTorrent Zeitgeist: The Top Torrent Searches of 2011By now, you’ve doubtless seen the Google Zeitgeist, the historical record of searching over the past year. Interesting, right? You know what’s even more interesting? It’s evil twin, the BitTorrent Zeitgeist, record of searches — for piracy! Ooo, spooky! Unlike Google, which is the undisputed king of searching, there’s no real central hub for BitTorrent searches, but Kat.ph, one of the top 5 most visited torrent sites, has published its most popular search terms and they are more unlike Google searches than you might expect.Without further ado, here’s the list:1. ita2. french3. 20114. ita dvd5. xxx6. dvdrip7. italian8. kickasstor9. thor10. 720p11. psp12. harry potter13. glee14. kung fu panda 215. green lantern16. 1080p17. wwe18. movies19. porn20. transformers 321. cars 222. captain america23. windows 734. true blood25. fast and furious 526. hindi27. sex28. game of thrones29. telugu30. tamil31. rango32. super 833. playboy34. x art35. how i met your mother36. pirates of the caribbean37. x men38. transformers39. mac40. rio41. supernatural42. kickassto43. source code44. adele45. house46. sucker punch47. final destination 548. dexter49. nero50. breaking badNow, you might have a little trouble parsing those first few; I know I did at first. “Ita” and “french” are just search terms that are being used to try and discover content that is either Italian of French. Neither of them are targeted at any specific piece of content and, in fact, you’ll see a lot of that towards the top of the list. Aside from the wealth of terms that seem to be searching for a category rather than a specific thing, the other interesting thing to notice is the abundance of recording artists on the list. There’s Adele and then, well, that’s it. Just Adele. I don’t know about you, but I generally associate piracy first with the music industry, then with software and games, then movies, then TV, so it’s interesting to see TV and movies taking up so much of the list, leaving games and music relatively underrepresented.And there you have it folks, furtive glance into what the world is torrenting. Is it what you expected?(source) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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