BTDigg

BTDigg
Type of site
BitTorrent DHT search engine, magnet links provider
Available inMultilingual, primarily English
URL
RegistrationNot required
LaunchedJanuary 2011; 13 years ago (2011-01)
Current statusOnline
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BTDigg is the first Mainline DHT search engine.[2][3][4] It participated in the BitTorrent DHT network, supporting the network and making correspondence between magnet links and a few torrent attributes (name, size, list of files) which are indexed and inserted into a database. For end users, BTDigg provides a full-text database search via a Web interface. The Web part of its search system retrieved proper information by a user's text query. The Web search supported queries in European and Asian languages. The project name was an acronym of BitTorrent Digger (in this context, digger means treasure-hunter).[5] It went offline in June 2016, reportedly due to index spam.[6][7] However in 2024 it appears to be back online but due to IP Filtering. A lot of IP Addresses cannot access btdig.com but they can access the tor link due to how tor works.

  1. ^ BTDigg [@btdigg] (19 February 2015). "We have only two official mirrors of http://t.co/QVBbcAxzpz : http://btdigg.i2p (I2P) and http://t.co/MVMTk9mMre (TOR). Others are not ours" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 9 September 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Ernesto (23 February 2011). "BTDigg, The First Trackerless Torrent Search Engine". Torrent Freak. Archived from the original on 2 January 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  3. ^ Anthony, Sebastian (24 February 2011). "BTDigg, The First DHT Trackerless Decentralized Torrent Search Engine". Download Squad. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  4. ^ "BTDigg: A Trackerless Torrent Search Engine". Make Use of. 27 February 2011. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  5. ^ "About". BTDigg. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  6. ^ "BTDigg Shut Down Due to Torrent Spam, For Now - TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak. 11 July 2016. Archived from the original on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  7. ^ "BTDigg Shut Down Due to Torrent Spam, For Now * TorrentFreak". Archived from the original on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2022.