BitTorrent Zeitgeist: What People Searched For in 2010

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There are plenty of ways to discover new content on BitTorrent, but searching is still the preferred method for most people. What they are searching for should therefore give a good picture of what the latest trends are. Today we present the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2010, a list of the 100 most searched for phrases and keywords on one of the most used public BitTorrent indexes this year. Every year Google and other search engines produce a year’s end list of the most searched for phrases and keywords. Chatroulette and iPad were the fastest rising searches on Google and Kim Kardashian and Sandra Bullock were the top searches on Bing.

BitTorrent site Mininova also got a questionable mention in Google’s Zeitgeit list as one of the fastest falling searches in 2010, which follows the collapse of the site earlier this year. In 2006 things were going much better for the site as Mininova was one of the most searched for terms on Google.

Following this Zeitgeist trend we thought it might be a good idea to make a similar list for searches on BitTorrent indexes. Since BitTorrent searches are scattered across hundreds of sites it is impossible to get a full picture of what people search for on BitTorrent, but luckily one of the largest indexers agreed to cooperate.

KickassTorrents, one of the top 10 torrent sites in terms of visitors, was kind enough to share the most popular search terms of 2010 with us. With a few hundred million searches a year this data should give a clear indication of what people were looking for on BitTorrent in the last 12 months.

At the top of the list we find “Inception“, the movie that also appeared in our most pirated movies chart of the year. In addition, four other titles made it into the top 10; “Iron Man 2″, “Avatar”, “Despicable Me”, and “Clash of the Titans”. Movie related searches are clearly the most popular among users of the site.

Aside from movie titles we find “2010” in third place and “dvdrip” in seventh, two keywords that are also used to find movie related content. Another interesting keyword is “French” which shows that France’s anti-piracy law that went into effect earlier this year isn’t chasing many people away from BitTorrent. The top 10 is completed by the inevitable adult searches “xxx” and “porn“.

The first TV related search is “Dexter” which appears further down the list in 15th place. “Windows 7” is the first software related search keyword in 20th place, and for the first music related entry we have to go all the way down to “Eminem” which is listed as number 47.

A rather surprising entry in the top 100 is “axxo” in 17th place, since the last torrent file by the popular DVDripper was uploaded in March 2009. Axxo has been among the most popular search keywords on BitTorrent for years and it seems that old habits are hard to break.

Below is the full list of the 100 most entered search phrases on KickassTorrents. This list will be different on other BitTorrent sites, but we have to assume that the top searches will be popular on other indexes as well.

BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2010

1. inception

2. iron man 2

3. 2010

4. xxx

5. french

6. avatar

7. dvdrip

8. despicable me

9. porn

10. clash of the titans

11. toy story 3

12. glee

13. salt

14. twilight eclipse

15. dexter

16. the sorcerer's apprentice

17. axxo

18. robin hood

19. prince of persia

20. windows 7

21. get him to the greek

22. predators 2010

23. the last airbender

24. shutter island

25. knight and day

26. the expendables

27. takers

28. dinner for schmucks

29. unstoppable

30. the book of eli

31. grown ups

32. true blood

33. alice in wonderland

34. movies

35. shrek forever after

36. supernatural

37. hindi

38. house

39. devil

40. step up 3d

41. megamind

42. harry potter and the deathly hallows

43. skyline

44. green zone

45. naughty america

46. iron man 2

47. eminem

48. predators

49. lost

50. the town

51. date night

52. the wolfman

53. smallville

54. the last song

55. torrents

56. how to train your dragon

57. fringe

58. dear john

59. toy story 3

60. red

61. the social network

62. weeds

63. noir

64. telugu

65. pc games

66. vampire diaries

67. the town

68. 2012

69. twilight

70. cop out

71. tamil

72. sex and the city 2

73. harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1

74. remember me

75. the walking dead

76. eclipse

77. due date

78. book of eli

79. fxg

80. true blood

81. avatar the last airbender

82. grown ups

83. ironman 2

84. entourage

85. sherlock holmes

86. how i met your mother

87. sex

88. microsoft office 2010

89. spartacus

90. the pacific

91. karate kid

92. the other guys

93. call of duty black ops

94. despicable me

95. chuck

96. ita

97. resident evil

98. wii

99.. due date

100. hot tub time machine

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