YouTorrent

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YouTorrent
Web address youtorrent.com
Type of site Torrent search engine
Launched December 2007
Alexa rank negative increase 268,802 (February 2014)[1]
Current status offline

YouTorrent is a BitTorrent search engine which allows parallel searches on different torrent search engines.

As of April 14, 2008, YouTorrent changed from searching all torrent sites to only sites which provide licensed, certified content. This change angered many, and caused most of its users to leave the site.[2]

History

The YouTorrent.com domain was bought for $20,000. It originally searched torrents on The Pirate Bay.[3] As of 4 April 2013, YouTorrent shut down its services stating "The stigmatisation of the word torrent proved a hurdle that was too hard to overcome when trying to build a legitimate and legal platform." and introduced a new platform called Clowdy.Clowdy [4] is a platform with music, film and photography in the one place.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Youtorrent.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-02-02. 
  2. ↑ Frommer, Dan (2008-04-14). "BitTorrent Search Engine Kicks Out The Pirates. What's It Worth?". Silicon Valley Insider. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  3. ↑ Mark Scott (7 May 2008). "Riding the Download Wave on YouTorrent". Bloomberg Businessweek. 
  4. ↑ http://www.youtorrent.com.  Missing or empty |title= (help)

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