Comments on: Grow Up Mashable – Google is NOT a Torrent Search Engine

By: Bobo Bunch

Bobo Bunch — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:18:40 +0000

Actually lets get a bit more specific.

Pirate bay and mininova are not really Torrent search engines… they are sites which HOST TORRENTS with a search bar implemented into their site.

A Torrent search engine is quite different… It’s a website which searches sites which HOST TORRENTS…. Big Difference. A good example is Qtorrents.com

Qtorrents.com = Torrent Search Engine
Mininova.org = Torrent Hosting site

Big difference here… and yes, I actually agree with mashable. Sites like Qtorrents.com and Google are both the same in respects to how fetching of other sites information is concerned. In this case a site like Qtorrents.com is perfectly legal because they do not host any torrents. They are only a search engine much like Google and Yahoo.

You have quite misunderstood mashable’s post…. Cheers!

By: torrent

torrent — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:08:28 +0000

Google is a great search engine.but its not similar to torrent.

By: Raju

Raju — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:09:09 +0000

@Branden,
I am glad you agree with me!

By: Branden

Branden — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:11:01 +0000

I agree with you completely. Mashable is just trying to rank the hits on this one. Any search engine just archives pages and not trackers. I’m in support of both what Pirate Bay and Google are doing. if they want to prosecute people then prosecute those that are profiting or distributing it in masses on server farms.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:40:54 +0000

Raju, According to me. Pirate bay is not doing anything wrong. They are just linking to the torrents. Torrents are shard by users. If they want to stop. they start stoping all users sharing which is virtually impossible. Nihars last blog post..Find Friends on Social Networking sites using Identity

By: Peter Fendrich

Peter Fendrich — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:25:24 +0000

Hi Raju, I think that you mixed up things here. Trackers (a music file component) was never hosted by pirate bay but they are a bittorrent tracker, which just means that they connect users with each other. It is nothing illegal by itself. They never hosted any illegal material and that is what makes this case so complicated. They never had anything than links and indexes and provided the mean to connect users (downloaders) with each other. The illegal material was somewhere else and Pirate Bay just pointed to it with links (torrent files) that other people uploaded. The tracker part is just there to make the computers to connect in the initial phase. Peter Fendrichs last blog post..The next big thing?

By: Raju

Raju — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:08:48 +0000

@Peter
“It is not clear to me what the Pirate Bay is doing, that Google does not do”
Pirate Bay hosts TRACKERS. I hope you know what a tracker is (vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org, tpb.tracker.thepiratebay.org etc), Google just indexes the page containing these trackers. If we see at a much much broader level, what you are saying is right – Both host links, but at a realistic level, both are just not same.

By: Peter Fendrich

Peter Fendrich — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:02:14 +0000

Google is a bigger torrent searcher than Pirate Bay ever was. Just try searching: filetype:torrent springsteen or whatever you like. A torrent file by itself is not more illegal than a link is it? A torrent searcher is only different from a general searcher by technical means. It is not clear to me what the Pirate Bay is doing, that Google does not do, but in a much larger scale. They both host links. Peter Fendrichs last blog post..The next big thing?

By: Mayur Somani

Mayur Somani — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:41:09 +0000

Google is a great tool. Stan Schroeder couldn’t have had written that post without researching and verifying the facts with the help of Google.

By: motoholik

motoholik — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:08:54 +0000

The article seems to have succeeded in its aim i.e to get link and attention. Well done Mashable