Matrix Posted September 8, 2019 Share Posted September 8, 2019 The popular torrent meta-search engine Torrentz2 is the go-to site for many avid BitTorrent users. Aside from indexing classic torrent sites, Torrentz2 recently expanded by adding Google to its index, which apparently has a pretty impressive collection of unique torrent hashes. More than 80 million in total. Like every general search engine on the web, Google indexes every page it can find. That’s what it’s for, after all. Torrent meta-search engines do things quite differently. These sites are only interested in torrent links found on external sites. This includes Torrentz2, which is without a doubt the most popular torrent meta-search engine on the Internet. The site took over from the original Torrentz site, which after it surprisingly closed its doors during the summer of 2016. Over the past three years, the site has rolled out some updates, most of which have gone unnoticed. However, recently our interest was piqued by a rather unusual addition to the Torrent2’s indexed sites. Starting a few weeks ago, Torrentz3 began listing “Google” as a ‘source’ in its search results. Not somewhere down the bottom, but as the top result for every piece of content. Here’s what shows up on the “Ubuntu desktop 19.04” page. The Google link on top leads to a Google search for the associated torrent hash, which finds dozens of pages where the Ubuntu torrent is available as well. This works the same for all other results. Usually, Google returns plenty of options, including several sites that Torrentz2 doesn’t search. What’s also interesting to note is the number of hashes Google has listed in its search engine. According to Torrentz2, Google is currently able to find 82,085,976 unique torrent hashes. While that’s already an impressive amount, the number of torrent pages indexed by Google is actually much higher, as it often has dozens of pages for each torrent hash. After all, the same torrents generally appear on several torrent sites. Google, like any other search engine, has always indexed torrent sites. In fact, it even has a dedicated filetype:torrent command. This allows users to search for .torrent files directly on Google, but it isn’t as effective as the hash-based method. Also, in recent years the site took several measures to make copyright-infringing content harder to find. Nowadays it can be quite a challenge to find something in Google by simply assing “torrent” to a search query. With Torrentz2 + Google, however, that doesn’t appear to be an issue. VIEW: Original Article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The popular torrent meta-search engine Torrentz2 is the go-to site for many avid BitTorrent users. Aside from indexing classic torrent sites, Torrentz2 recently expanded by adding Google to its index, which apparently has a pretty impressive collection of unique torrent hashes. More than 80 million in total. Like every general search engine on the web, Google indexes every page it can find. That’s what it’s for, after all. Torrent meta-search engines do things quite differently. These sites are only interested in torrent links found on external sites. This includes Torrentz2, which is without a doubt the most popular torrent meta-search engine on the Internet. The site took over from the original Torrentz site, which after it surprisingly closed its doors during the summer of 2016. Over the past three years, the site has rolled out some updates, most of which have gone unnoticed. However, recently our interest was piqued by a rather unusual addition to the Torrent2’s indexed sites. Starting a few weeks ago, Torrentz3 began listing “Google” as a ‘source’ in its search results. Not somewhere down the bottom, but as the top result for every piece of content. Here’s what shows up on the “Ubuntu desktop 19.04” page. The Google link on top leads to a Google search for the associated torrent hash, which finds dozens of pages where the Ubuntu torrent is available as well. This works the same for all other results. Usually, Google returns plenty of options, including several sites that Torrentz2 doesn’t search. What’s also interesting to note is the number of hashes Google has listed in its search engine. According to Torrentz2, Google is currently able to find 82,085,976 unique torrent hashes. While that’s already an impressive amount, the number of torrent pages indexed by Google is actually much higher, as it often has dozens of pages for each torrent hash. After all, the same torrents generally appear on several torrent sites. Google, like any other search engine, has always indexed torrent sites. In fact, it even has a dedicated filetype:torrent command. This allows users to search for .torrent files directly on Google, but it isn’t as effective as the hash-based method. Also, in recent years the site took several measures to make copyright-infringing content harder to find. Nowadays it can be quite a challenge to find something in Google by simply assing “torrent” to a search query. With Torrentz2 + Google, however, that doesn’t appear to be an issue.
steven36 Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Torrent hashes are no value to me because i use torrent in the cloud that only uses magnets or torrents . I don't install software to download torrents in years now i just put a magnet link or torrent into and api then a few minutes latter it gives me a direct download link that i download with J Downloder 2 , If the file is already uploaded to the server then theirs no wait. , Also hashes are not very dependable for old files just like magnets or torrents are not like a torrent site with a seeder update checking api is , They also are millions of dead torrents or with one or 2 seeds that are to slow to download from. unique torrent hash most the time = dead because if they not listed no were no one is downloading them .Also hashes google be listing also be from malware sites or with malware in them , There all kinds of torrents full of malware . Using DHT search engines is more effective than using Google even becaust they dont hide there results . I use DHT search a lot for new releases that be hiding behind link shortners and works very good, Also public BitTorrent dont even have all releases like Private sites do . Also they many releases on filehost that have working links long after the torrent is dead if you know were to look but you need to pay for a download service or find a free leccher to download..🤣 Try putting in a hash for something pirated instead of legal Ubuntu in Google you will get 0 results or just mostly proxy sites that could be full of malware because Google deletes results from sites that has lots of dmca. Google search is broke using filetype:torrent even gives worse results than putting hashes in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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