YouTorrent

YouTorrent was a BitTorrent search engine which allowed parallel searches on different torrent search engines.

This article is about the website. For the unrelated BitTorrent client, see μTorrent.
YouTorrent
Type of site
Torrent search engine
URLyoutorrent.com
Alexa rank 664,204 (As of 19 March 2019)[1]
LaunchedDecember 2007
Current statusOffline

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

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 is a platform with music, film and photography in the one place.

History

The YouTorrent.com domain was bought for $20,000. It originally searched torrents on The Pirate Bay.[3]

References
  1. "Youtorrent.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  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.


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