Popular torrent sites get millions of visitors every day, but what are all those people searching for? Today we present the "torrent zeitgeist" of 2017, a list of the top 50 most searched-for phrases and keywords on one of the most-used public BitTorrent indexes during the past year.
Lists, list, lists, it’s that time of the year again. In December many prominent search engines publish their overviews of most used search terms.
On Google, Hurricane Irma was the most searched for term of the year, globally. With “It” and “Stranger Things” ending up as the most sought after movie and TV show respectively.
But what’s happening on torrent search engines? With billions of searches every year, it’s worth taking a look at the most-entered keywords on the dominant file-sharing network.
With data from one of the most visited torrent indexes, we compiled a list of 50 popular terms, to give an indication.
2017’s number one query is “Game of Thrones,” which was entered in several variations, often paired with the episode number. While it’s no surprise, considering the show’s popularity, as a TV-show it’s somewhat of an outlier.
The top 50 is mostly made up of movie titles. “Spider Man: Homecoming” ended up in the second spot, followed by “Baby Driver” and “War for the Planet of the Apes.”
The only non-title entry in the top ten is “Telugu 2017,” which shows how popular BitTorrent is in India. On most torrent sites nowadays, a large chunk of all visitors come from the Asian country.
Torrent sites are predominantly used to download video, which is evident from the list. There are no references to music at all, and “CracksNow” appears to be the only software related search.
Below is the full list of the Top 50 most-entered search queries based on a data sample provided by one of the most popular torrent sites on the Internet. Searches pointing to the same title have been combined.
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Note that searches are not the same as download activity. The former are, in theory, easier to manipulate by outsiders.
What Pirates Searched for in 2017
rank search torrentfreak.com 1. Game of Thrones 2. Spider Man Homecoming 3. Baby Driver 4. War for the Planet of the Apes 5. Star Trek Discovery 6. Telugu 2017 7. Transformers the last knight 8. Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales 9. Thor Ragnarok 10 Alien Covenant 11. Wonder Woman 12. The Mummy 13. Atomic Blonde 14. Malayalam 2017 15. Riverdale 16. Kingsman The Golden Circle 17. Designated Survivor 18. 2017 Movies 19. Half Girlfriend 20. Dunkirk 21. The Fate of the Furious 22. The Orville 23. Baywatch 24. Blade Runner 2049 25. Tigole 26. Golmaal again 27. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 28. Midnight Texas 29. King Arthur Legend of the Sword 30. Tamil 2017 31. Justice League 32. Tubelight 33. Annabelle Creation 34. Geostorm 35. The Handmaids Tale 36. Young Sheldon 37. Toilet Ek Prem Katha 38. Logan lucky 39. 13 reasons why 40. Baadshaho 41. Jagga Jasoos 42. CracksNow 43. Dangal 44. The Lost City of Z 45. Suits 46. Power Rangers 47. The Big Bang Theory 48. The Hitman’s Bodyguard 49 Secret Superstar 50. Jab Harry Met Sejal
Source: Torrentfreak.com