The FreshMash group is at it again folks with an perfectly timed mash-up release. Their latest mash-up, Torrents!, is (as you may have guessed) a BitTorrent search engine. Why is this so perfectly timed you ask?
In the past few days a lot of attention has been given to GoogleTorrents. GoogleTorrents is a Google Coop based custom search engine that tries to help you find torrent files. Trying the website myself I had mixed results. As you can see here searching GoogleTorrents for "documentary" and here searching for "ebook" few if any actual torrent files are returned. While it is an interesting concept, it's hard to imagine Google letting the domain "GoogleTorrents.com" slip through the cracks, but who knows.
And that isn't where the Google/Torrent discussion ends. According to a recent post at Torrentfreak, when the popular BitTorrent website Torrentspy was taken to court by the MPAA they used Google as their motion to dismiss argument. Torrentspy argued “everything alleged about defendants’ website (torrentspy) is true about Google, and even more so, because Google outperforms the allegations in the complaint. Plaintiffs’ (MPAA) factually empty and broadbrush categorical accusations are like mud that covers all distinctions.” (Source)
So where's the connection to Torrents!? According to Torrents! About, "If Google can do it, why not Yahoo?" That being said we hope you enjoy Torrents!"
Because Torrents! and GoogleTorrents are similar in "concept" I was curious how they stacked up against each other. After running the same two searches, "documentary" and "ebook," at Torrents! I found Torrents! much more effective.
Labels: bittorrent, freshmash, mash-up, p2p, third-party, torrent
