NowTorrents Help Page
With this page we hope to answer questions you might have. If you cannot find a desired answer here please do not hesitate to contact us.
8 Important NowTorrents Facts!
1. NowTorrents does not host .torrent files in any way, shape or form.
2. NowTorrents links to other independent web pages that do host .torrent files. We have absolutely no control over those pages.
3. Torrent files are simply metadata and cannot be copyrighted, and we don't host any, nor link directly to any.
4. NowTorrents is similar to Google. Google might sometimes link directly to a .torrent file, we do not.
5. NowTorrents will gladly ban any search queries that may contain links to sites with copyrighted content.
6. NowTorrents respects reasonable copyrights. We can ban certain search queries if requested nicely.
7. NowTorrents has a spotless relationship with copyright owners.
8. NowTorrents loves you.
What Is NowTorrents?
NowTorrents is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents. Our servers scan the largest torrent websites on the internet and come up with the best results. NowTorrents is also able to detect and remove fake/dead torrents. This is a legal website; we do not host any copyrighted content, nor do we host any .torrent files or link directly to .torrent files.
What Is The Real-Time Filter?
The real-time filter is the little search box on the right hand side of the search results. We created this filter to make finding the torrent files faster and a whole lot easier. For example, you searched for 'Madonna', but you only want her music from 2008, you can now enter '2008' in the real-time filter and it will only display results that contain that keyword. If the keyword can't be found the filter search box will color red. If you remove the keyword all the original search results will instantly show up again.
Engine Filter
Another way to filter results is by using our engine filter. On the search page you will see a bunch of small icons on the right hand side. These are the torrent websites we have just connected to with your query. You can display the results from each engine separately by clicking on a certain icon. A small text link will appear just below the icons to remove the filter again.
Help one of the torrent sites I have selected does not show up, why does this happen? - We automatically remove the icons of websites that have problems returning good results for certain queries. It might happen that a certain engine works for query 1, but for query 2 we might remove it because we aren't happy with the quality of the torrents.
Search Options
At the top of every page you will find a link to the search preferences page. Here you can customize NowTorrents to your personal preference. You are able to select your favorite torrent websites, how to order the search results and how many results per page you want to see.
Browser Plugin
If you click the little green logo just above the search box you will be taken to the browser search plugin page. We currently support Firefox 2, Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7.
NowTorrents Is Very Slow For Me, Why??
It is likely you are not using Firefox 3, which is by far the best browser to be using for NowTorrents. Internet Explorer does not handle our Ajax/Javascipt code very well, and makes the site very slow.
NowTorrents Does Not Load Anymore
Again your problem is Internet Explorer. You can fix this by getting Firefox 3, as this allows you to visit a site even if the page was cut off while loading.
What Is BitTorrent?
BitTorrent (often abbreviated to 'BT') is a protocol (a set of rules and description of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly by allowing people downloading the file to upload (distribute) parts of it at the same time. BitTorrent is often used for distribution of very large files, very popular files and files available for free, as it is a lot cheaper, faster and more efficient to distribute files using BitTorrent than a regular download.
What Is A BitTorrent Client?
A 'client' in this case is a computer program that follows the rules of a protocol. For example, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used to download web pages and other content - like this page - and your HTTP client (or browser) is the program you use to get those web pages. Some popular browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Opera. To an extent, they all work the same way because they follow the same set of rules.
Just as there are multiple HTTP clients, there are multiple BitTorrent clients, and uTorrent is one such BT client.
For more information about BitTorrent visit the Wikipedia BitTorrent website and TorrentFreak.
8 Important NowTorrents Facts!
1. NowTorrents does not host .torrent files in any way, shape or form.
2. NowTorrents links to other independent web pages that do host .torrent files. We have absolutely no control over those pages.
3. Torrent files are simply metadata and cannot be copyrighted, and we don't host any, nor link directly to any.
4. NowTorrents is similar to Google. Google might sometimes link directly to a .torrent file, we do not.
5. NowTorrents will gladly ban any search queries that may contain links to sites with copyrighted content.
6. NowTorrents respects reasonable copyrights. We can ban certain search queries if requested nicely.
7. NowTorrents has a spotless relationship with copyright owners.
8. NowTorrents loves you.
What Is NowTorrents?
NowTorrents is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents. Our servers scan the largest torrent websites on the internet and come up with the best results. NowTorrents is also able to detect and remove fake/dead torrents. This is a legal website; we do not host any copyrighted content, nor do we host any .torrent files or link directly to .torrent files.
What Is The Real-Time Filter?
The real-time filter is the little search box on the right hand side of the search results. We created this filter to make finding the torrent files faster and a whole lot easier. For example, you searched for 'Madonna', but you only want her music from 2008, you can now enter '2008' in the real-time filter and it will only display results that contain that keyword. If the keyword can't be found the filter search box will color red. If you remove the keyword all the original search results will instantly show up again.
Engine Filter
Another way to filter results is by using our engine filter. On the search page you will see a bunch of small icons on the right hand side. These are the torrent websites we have just connected to with your query. You can display the results from each engine separately by clicking on a certain icon. A small text link will appear just below the icons to remove the filter again.
Help one of the torrent sites I have selected does not show up, why does this happen? - We automatically remove the icons of websites that have problems returning good results for certain queries. It might happen that a certain engine works for query 1, but for query 2 we might remove it because we aren't happy with the quality of the torrents.
Search Options
At the top of every page you will find a link to the search preferences page. Here you can customize NowTorrents to your personal preference. You are able to select your favorite torrent websites, how to order the search results and how many results per page you want to see.
Browser Plugin
If you click the little green logo just above the search box you will be taken to the browser search plugin page. We currently support Firefox 2, Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7.
NowTorrents Is Very Slow For Me, Why??
It is likely you are not using Firefox 3, which is by far the best browser to be using for NowTorrents. Internet Explorer does not handle our Ajax/Javascipt code very well, and makes the site very slow.
NowTorrents Does Not Load Anymore
Again your problem is Internet Explorer. You can fix this by getting Firefox 3, as this allows you to visit a site even if the page was cut off while loading.
What Is BitTorrent?
BitTorrent (often abbreviated to 'BT') is a protocol (a set of rules and description of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly by allowing people downloading the file to upload (distribute) parts of it at the same time. BitTorrent is often used for distribution of very large files, very popular files and files available for free, as it is a lot cheaper, faster and more efficient to distribute files using BitTorrent than a regular download.
What Is A BitTorrent Client?
A 'client' in this case is a computer program that follows the rules of a protocol. For example, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used to download web pages and other content - like this page - and your HTTP client (or browser) is the program you use to get those web pages. Some popular browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Opera. To an extent, they all work the same way because they follow the same set of rules.
Just as there are multiple HTTP clients, there are multiple BitTorrent clients, and uTorrent is one such BT client.
For more information about BitTorrent visit the Wikipedia BitTorrent website and TorrentFreak.