Torrents, also known as bit torrents, are part of an extremely popular peer to peer (P2P) file distribution system used for transferring large files within a large network of people. You can find torrents using torrent file search engines, but there are so many, it's hard to know which one to use.
Since there are so many torrent search engines on the Web, I've sorted through them all to show you the best torrent search engines that will help you find the torrents you're looking for.
Intro to Torrents
1. The Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay is one of the Web's largest torrent search engines and trackers, started in Sweden in 2003. Thousands upon thousands of torrent files can be found here, anything from books to movies to television shows.
2. Mininova
Mininova is one of the largest torrent search engines on the Web, started in 2005. Mininova provides an easy to use torrent search engine and directory, and since adult submissions are not allowed, Mininova is a family-friendly site.
3. Isohunt
Isohunt is a BitTorrent search engine. Isohunt does not host BitTorrent files, Isohunt only helps you find BitTorrent files, and therefore is a completely legal service. From a Isohunt forum thread: "IsoHunt crawls several torrent sites, and when you search for torrents here, you get links to HTML pages on these sites where the .torrent files can be found."
4. SeedPeer
SeedPeer is a torrent search engine; you can use SeedPeer to find torrent files you might be interested in downloading.
5. NowTorrents
NowTorrents is a real time torrent search engine; it also will discard dead links for you so you don't have to wade through them in your torrent searching.
6. YouTorrent
YouTorrent bills itself as a real-time comparison torrent search engine, meaning that it searches from many different torrent sites all the time to find what you're looking for.
7. PizzaTorrent
A quick way to search through many different torrent sites at once; a very simple to use torrent search engine.
8. btjunkie
btjunkie definitely is one of the larger torrent search engines out there, with "over 1.5 million active torrents and from 5,000-25,000 torrents added daily".
9. Torrentz
Torrentz is a nicely organized (tag cloud) torrent search engine; very easy to use and very easy to find what you're looking for.
