5 Best Torrent Search Engines + Google Trick for Torrent Search!

by Rahul Bansal (515) on 24 February, 2008 | Categories : Cool Sites

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Update: Now we have few more nice torrent search engines. At the end of this post!

There are many sites which host torrent on Internet but most of them are spam sites or porn sites. So finding a torrent is hard and Google is not just enough to do this job. So here comes the list of search engines specially meant for searching torrents! At the end I will be sharing a trick to use Google for searching torrents!

Torrentz: This is my favorite. Simple and fast. Key feature is same torrent from different sources is not duplicated while showing results. So you get comprehensive search results. After selecting a torrent from results you can see user comments, various trackers, mirror links, related torrents & most important authenticity of that torrent.

It also have a dedicated movies & TV shows section. All torrent in these sections are verified. Additionally you can limit your searches to these sections. There is RSS feed option for these sections sections as well as for all search queries. So feed addicts will find torrentz most interesting!

ScrapeTorent: This also search across various torrent indexes. Key features are option to limit searches to particular category, option to filter dead-torrents & duplicates from results. They also have a forum if you need help. I come to know about this recently via Anil, a geek & fellow blogger.

PizzaTorrent: I use this when torrentz fails. It shows real-time results from 15 best torrent hosts. It doesn’t club similar torrents in a single group so you may notice much higher number of results. But it does grouping by categories which saves you from downloading wrong torrent! However it produces too many useless results for multiword queries.

YouTorrent: It also shows real-time torrent results. By default it gathers results from 10 different torrent hosts. You can add/remove various torrent hosts for fine grained results. in left sidebar it shows related searches as well as top searches. This also produces few extra result which user may find useless. I think by default it looks search keywords in torrent description. This may be useful sometime but most of the time user is interested in torrent names only to get accurate search results.

PinkTorrent: NOTE: This is for adults only. So skip this if you are minor according to laws in your county.

This is best for searching free porn torrents. I do not have more details about this but its best according to many reliable sources. Use at your own risk! Only thing about safety I can say never share your personal information with porn sites specially your credit card info!

Google: Yep Google can be used smartly to search anything on the Web! Just add filetype:torrent as it is to your search query and you will get results restricted to torrents. I use this only when all above fails. Unfortunately due to high amount of spam in torrent world you will be disappointed most of the times!

Also check 6 Most Frequently Used Google Search Operators For Better Searching!

There are many torrent search engines on net so it may happen I am missing your favorite one. Anyway let us know which one you like?

Update: Following is list of torrent search engine picked up from comments below…

BTJunkie - They have database of 1.5 million torrents which they claimed to be largest. Better search options and ability to browse torrent is plus point. [Added by Juan's comment]

Toorgle - Power of Google Search used across 250+ torrent websites. Have index of more than 7 million torrents. A nice example of Googles custom search! :-) [Added by Chris's comment]

Torrent-Finder - Optionwise this beats all other torrent search site. Really huge database, with fine-grain control over what you want to include in search! Results can be browse in tabs. [Added by Jack's comment]

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#
Rocki on March 2, 2008

I would suggest http://www.multitorrent.org
a very nice meta search engine
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Rahul Bansal on March 2, 2008

@Rocki
Its nice but I see it least inefficient.
It doesn’t combine results from other sites instead you have to check them one by one.
Anyway its different so some people may like it…
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Sooraj Jayaram on March 11, 2008

Well i guess mininova.org is the best !! u get good seeded torrents from there, it never disappointed me, anywayz ‘l give a try to these !!
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Rahul Bansal on March 11, 2008

@Sooraj
Mininova is my favorite too but I personally use torrentz as it covers mininova as well as other reliable sources. Moreover it always show mininova at top in the results.
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Ryan on March 19, 2008

Thanks for the list. I like Rahul use torrentz.com.
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Rahul Bansal on March 20, 2008

Ryan
Your welcome buddy!
Torrentz is really great… Pleased to know that you like it too!
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CabooseEnfield on March 21, 2008

Dont forget the all so useful thepiratebay.org
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Rahul Bansal on March 21, 2008

@CabooseEnfield
Thanks for reminding buddy but most of above 5 already check thepiratebay and other top sites while searching torrents.
So for example when you go to torrentz your search result will include mininova + piratebay + results from many other top torrent hosts…
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Techdudes.blogspot on March 27, 2008

Hi,

http://www.rlslog.net for english movies,TV episodes,games,softwares everything…It having many users…and no need to login…
daily updated portal…and heavy seeders for torrents.

http://www.desitorrents.com for hindi torrents.

mininova.org is also good.

Techdudes.
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Rahul Bansal on March 28, 2008

@Techdudes
desitorrents is really good and I knew about it but other rslog is really something I don’t know about…
Thanks for that!
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Juan Timana on March 30, 2008

I’d suggest btjunkie.org huge bittorent search engine.
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Rahul Bansal on March 30, 2008

@Juan
Its really nice one!
Will add it to the post… Thanks…
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Chris on April 2, 2008

Or You Can Just Use http://WWW.Toorgle.Com for all your torrent needs
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Rahul Bansal on April 3, 2008

@Chris
Its really great. Nice use of Googles Custom search feature.
Thanks for updates! I will add it to the above listing soon…
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Jack on April 10, 2008

Another huge meta-search torrent lookup site
http://torrent-finder.com/
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Rahul Bansal on April 10, 2008

Jack
Cool one! I will surely ad this into the post…
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Ian on April 10, 2008

Try http://www.lazypirate.net/
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Rahul Bansal on April 10, 2008

@lan
Sorry to say, its not upto the mark.
The design is not so good and also there are no special features to talk about… Please feel free to correct me, if I missed anything you want to highlight..
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chip on April 14, 2008

Hi,

If you havent tried it yet, check out Bit Che

http://filesharefreak.com/2008/04/07/bit-che-software-for-torrent-searching/

-chip
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Rahul Bansal on April 14, 2008

@Chip
Seems nice. Will check it soon. Thanks
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sarosh on April 21, 2008

i have this question that why the spankwire is opening up when im trying to open pinktorrent ?????
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yuvraj anand on April 22, 2008

hey rahul this is a request to kindly send me an invitation to join http://www.desitorrents.com

it wld b realy nice to u if u could invite me

My e mail id is yuvi_iitm@yahoo.co.in

thanks…………………………..
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Rahul Bansal on April 24, 2008

@sarosh
I will check and let you know…
Its really strange…

@Yuvraj
I am looking for desitorrent invitation from long time myself…
Anyway I will invite you if I get there first…
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Find Torrent Search Engine on June 1, 2008

thanks this is a great list.Though I usually use Find Torrent Search Engine because they have no ads and it works great for me
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Rahul Bansal on June 3, 2008

@Find Torrent Search Engine
Nice interface…
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hitman on June 13, 2008

Nice compilation! Just found this site:
http://btdig.com
might just be worth checking out. kinda like youtorrent, but with some additional features.
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Rahul Bansal on June 14, 2008

@Hitman
Yep… its nice too… thanks buddy…
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Paul Thompson on August 5, 2008

My 2 cents:
http://torrentle.altervista.org/

Clear, fast and efficient
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Rahul Bansal on August 5, 2008

@Paul
Its really nice… I hope you won’t clutter it with ads in future.
Also try to buy a full time domain
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shrung on August 9, 2008

My favourite one is http://www.TorrentO.free.fr , you can find almost anything with it.

Thanks for your list anyways !
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Rahul Bansal on August 9, 2008

@shrung
Its really nice…
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prasad on September 6, 2008

isohunt.com
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abhishek on September 7, 2008

HEY GUYS IF ANYBODY HAS INVITATION FOR DESITORRENT …PLZ INVITE ME ON abhishagg@gmail.com……i can give demonoid invite in return…
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abhishek on September 7, 2008

guys dont forget bwt , dctorrent n exdesi…they r gud for hindi torrents….n demonoid is gud for english torrents…i want to chk out desitorrent lets see if i can get an invite……
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Rahul Bansal on September 8, 2008

@Prasad
Nice one…
But torrentz and many other includes all torrents from isohunt in their index so haven’t mentioned it!

@Abhishk
Sorry bro. I do not have desitorrent invitation.
Also I purposely omitted all invite only torrent sites.
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moviefan on October 3, 2008

Mininova and Torrentz are excellent sites to search for torrents, but i usually get too many useless results.

I also use http://flixi.org is clean and easy to use.
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Don on October 6, 2008

i need invitation 2 dctorrent can ny 1 can snd it 2 me @ arpit.maheswari123@gmail.com
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Deepak Jain on October 7, 2008

@Don -
Even I am looking for 1
deepakjain.hacker@gmail.com
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Rahul Bansal on October 8, 2008

@moviefan
I tried it and it seems very slow. Also interface is not impressive.
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Steve Troilo on November 6, 2008

Great post. Most of them I already use. I too if all else fails find google to be great if you know what sites to filter out. One note on torrent finder is that it consumes a heavy amount of browser power because it loads all the tabs at once instead of when clicked on. At first it was very convenient but not worth the bog if your on a machine with limited resources. Anyone got some suggestions for private sites? I spend most of my time at Demonoid and LOVE it, but would like to join a couple more. My ratio is always at least 2.5 or higher. Any invites would be greatly appreciated. A site that was dedicated to movie pre releases like TS’s would kick ars. And finally is Oink still around? I guess I can check myself.
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preet kaler on November 9, 2008

Hello there ,, Just a kind request,, if anyone of you can send me an invitation for desitorrent i would really appreciate that. my email address is xcelent_jatt@yahoo.com.
thank you in advance
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Deepak Jain on November 9, 2008

@preet kaler -
Don’t have 1
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John Smith on November 22, 2008

One of my favorites is Torrent Moon. I can find lots of torrents with it. I guess it similar to toorgle but it doesn’t have any ads.
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Raj on November 24, 2008

I am addicted to torrentreactor…. itz tha ultimate…… I hav downloaded gamez above 10 gb and numerous movies……. it has neva dissappointed me eva…….

itzz simply tha bestest of tha best…..
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Rahul Bansal on November 25, 2008

@Raj -
Thanks for sharing….
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Don on November 27, 2008

Hey NEw SITE Can ny 1 please snd me invitation of Desitorrent or torrent-damage…Plss
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Deepak Jain on November 28, 2008

@Don -
I don’t have @ desitorrent..
Do you want at Exdesi?.
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Pathik on November 30, 2008

Here’s a list I had compiled some time back.
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Chetan Gole on November 30, 2008

I think u missed Mininova . org, its the best and most trusted torrent search engine i ever used, bcoz it gives real stats of Seeders .
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§temo on December 13, 2008

Great post,learned a lot have you tried h33t .
Give it a go.
Tara chuck
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pedram on December 16, 2008

The Best Torrent Search Engine Of The World : http://www.completorrent.com & http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=003849996876419856805:erhhdbygrma . No Need To Use Other Torrent Search Engine .. EnJ0Y {my yaho0 id : fa}
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Rahul Bansal on December 16, 2008

@pedram -
Nice ones… Thanks for sharing!
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Paul Mall on December 18, 2008

@Rahul Bansal -
Hello Rahul, now torrentle.altervista.org has a full domain!
It’s bitgle.com!
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Rahul Bansal on December 20, 2008

@Paul Mall
Thanks for update buddy!
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Jean Paul on December 22, 2008

this is a great search site to find torrents!

torrents added on the world, are instantly added witorrent.com !
incredible, i always use it.

http://www.witorrent.com
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p@r@noid on December 24, 2008

My all time fav is http://www.torrentz.com/
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Rahul Bansal on December 24, 2008

@p@r@noid
That’s my fav too till date.
I got lots of nice recommendation after posting this article, but none of them come even close to torrentz.com
Its simply the best…
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believer on January 5, 2009

I got http://www.witorrent.com and liked it, you find lots and lots torrents, omg

only the fullpage ads are bad

but by now its my fav