1. Home
  2. Computing & Technology
  3. Web Search

The Top Twenty Torrent Search Engines on the Web
A Comprehensive Review of the Best Torrent Search Engines Online in 2009

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

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

11. TorrentReactor

You can use TorrentReactor to find the most popular torrents by category.

12. Toorgle

Toorgle is a torrent search engine that uses Google's custom search capability to find torrents from a variety of different torrent sites.

13. TorrentScan

TorrentScan is a metasearch engine for torrents, with one difference: you can customize TorrentScan to look for torrents in only the sites that you specify.

14. Torrentz.ws

You can use Torrentz.ws to find all sorts of good torrents, including "anime torrents, books for download, torrent games, movie bit torrents downloads including TV shows and adult films, music and mp3 links, pictures, images and photo torrents, software torrent downloads."

15. ScrapeTorrent

ScrapeTorrent combines torrents from many different sites onto one convenient page; it also gives you quite a few sorting options.

16. TorrentPortal

TorrentPortal is one of the larger torrent search engines on the Web; at the time of this writing TorrentPortal was tracking "1,398,380 Torrents with 1,022,484,782 Peers across 10,756 trackers. We also have 918,855 registered members."

17. Fenopy

Find and share torrents with friends at Fenopy; you can also check the dead torrents list to see if your torrent stream is no good.

18. GamesTorrents

Games, games, and more games can be found at GamesTorrents.

19. Zoozle

Zoozle is a search engine for all sorts of great downloads; you can also pick what kind of files you want to search for, anything from torrent files to serial numbers.

20. BiteNova

BiteNova is an extremely well-organized torrent search engine/directory; you can use BiteNova to find movies, anime, books, and more.
Explore Web Search
About.com Special Features

Stay connected and entertained with reviews on tips on the latest HDTVs, cellphones and more. More >

Easy ways to connect two computers for networking purposes. More >

  1. Home
  2. Computing & Technology
  3. Web Search
  4. Multimedia
  5. Torrent Search
  6. Torrent Search Engines - The Top Twenty Torrent Search Engines on the Web>

©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.