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LookTorrent Consolidates Torrent Searching
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 1:01 AM on April 25, 2008
To be honest, BitTorrent aggregator LookTorrent wouldn't be much of a competitor for its Ajax-powered counterpart YouTorrent, except that YouTorrent has dropped most of the popular torrent sources in anticipation of a squeaky-clean sale. What LookTorrent does is provide a top frame to search for torrent download links, and links to 25 sources, one of which will likely have even the most obscure files. If nothing else, LookTorrent's home page is a nice catalog of sites to look through while you're on the hunt for that special download.
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Godius
Posted September 20, 2008 5:53 PM
I much prefer using http://www.torrentin.com
Dark Rowan
Posted 1:51 AM 25/4/08
How would this be more beneficial than, say, a Google search with the 'inurl:.torrent' added to the end?
Dark Rowan
TunaFish
Posted 1:10 AM 25/4/08
Showing the full PirateBay page instead of just linking to the PirateBay page seems counterproductive for me. The LookTorrent page takes longer to load, and sometimes won't load the torrent page (PirateBay's page failed to load for me).
I'll stick with PizzaTorrent for now.
TunaFish
PotKettleBlack
Posted 2:35 AM 25/4/08
Uhm, YouTorrent wasn't that great compared to ISOHunt. Maybe you are getting something other than movies and music, but for my needs, ISOhunt.com is far too good to bother with another torrent aggregator.
PotKettleBlack
Khamel
Posted 2:10 AM 25/4/08
still havent found a better alternative to scrapetorrent. people claim they get popups but i've never had that problem.
Khamel
JuryDuty
Posted 2:49 AM 25/4/08
[torrent-finder.com] seems to do the same thing and is faster.
JuryDuty
Technick
Posted 5:53 AM 25/4/08
No mention of Torrentz.com?
Technick
Eschguy
Posted 6:20 AM 25/4/08
I gotta stick with PizzaTorrent
Eschguy
Disiple
Posted 4:23 AM 25/4/08
torrentz.com is by far my favorite. Its fast and easy to pick between which site to download go to for the torrent. Plus it offers a lot of other features for easy of use and searching that others dont.
Disiple
CyberLegionary
Posted 2:04 AM 25/4/08
i think www.torrentpond.com is better...
CyberLegionary
sonicdevo
Posted 1:42 AM 25/4/08
I've been using a search engine that takes advantage of Google's Co-op (A service that lets you build engines ala the advanced search function). This one seems to include all the major players and give consistently good results.
sonicdevo
mbs348
Posted 1:25 AM 25/4/08
yeah this kind of sucks i guess.... I had been using PizzaTorrent, but it was out for about a week...but it looks like it's back up! long live pizza torrent!
I also found NowTorrent, which is an oldschool Youtorrent clone, straight up!
mbs348
eyeRmonkey
Posted 7:49 AM 25/4/08
I'm a big fan of [torrentscan.com]
eyeRmonkey
thegermandude517
Posted 11:32 AM 25/4/08
HOLY SHIT!!!! I just tried to download something through looktorrent! Malware all over the freaking place!
thegermandude517
Kevin Purdy
Posted 2:40 PM 25/4/08
@thegermandude517: Was it a result of LookTorrent, or do you think it was being pulled from the torrent source page it was searching?
Kevin Purdy
falter
Posted 6:39 PM 25/4/08
can i throw in my thoughts... head over to www.nowtorrent.com for a pretty much like for like replacement of youtorrent.
falter
Joseph
Posted 1:40 AM 26/4/08
YouTorrent is being sold?
Joseph
PinkNBlack21
Posted 2:15 AM 26/4/08
So that's what happened to YouTorrent. It's a completely horrible site now.
PinkNBlack21
JerryA
Posted 2:02 AM 26/4/08
I've always used btjunkie and been fine. It searches all the big public and private trackers. If I can't find it there, it's rare that it will be on a typical tracker.
JerryA
mdedmon
Posted 3:00 AM 25/4/08
[www.scrapetorrent.com] is good also.
mdedmon