MiniNova Hits 4 Billion Downloads
MiniNova Hits 4 Billion Downloads
Excerpted from Slyck.com Report by Thomas Mennecke
There are two juggernauts of the BitTorrent community, The Pirate Bay and MiniNova. While The Pirate Bay takes most of the headlines for the world's largest tracker, MiniNova has flown quietly under the radar and has become the world's largest indexer.
With a clean interface and a search engine that returns relevant results, MiniNova has accumulated a following that as of today downloaded their 4 billionth torrent file.
At MiniNova's start, Niek van der Maas, Business Developer & Founder of MiniNova, conceptualized his creation as a mere side project.
"When we launched back in January 2005, we were the first BitTorrent site to offer a sophisticated search engine, sorting of search results, and categorization," Niek said. "We try to keep our lead by innovating and extending our website with new features. Many things changed in the past years, but one thing will always be the same: we try to offer the #1 P2P directory and search engine."
The MiniNova concept caught on. By May 2006, MiniNova's fledgling user base downloaded 400 million torrent files. Eight months later, in January 2007, Niek's creation would hit1 billion downloads - an achievement reached just days shy of its two-year anniversary.
The time between each billion accelerated in 2007 and, by May, MiniNova accounted for its 2 billionth download. MiniNova's growth was now stratospheric.
Only 4.5 months later, in November 2007, MiniNova reached the 3 billion torrent milestone. By now, MiniNova had confirmed its presence at one of the leading BitTorrent trackers. To accommodate its increasing popularity, server power was added.............
MiniNova has finally reached 4 billion downloads. With an exponential rate of growth, 8 billion downloads could arrive by the end of this year.
Here is the link to the full article:
http://www.slyck.com/story1664_MiniN...lion_Downloads
Excerpted from Slyck.com Report by Thomas Mennecke
There are two juggernauts of the BitTorrent community, The Pirate Bay and MiniNova. While The Pirate Bay takes most of the headlines for the world's largest tracker, MiniNova has flown quietly under the radar and has become the world's largest indexer.
With a clean interface and a search engine that returns relevant results, MiniNova has accumulated a following that as of today downloaded their 4 billionth torrent file.
At MiniNova's start, Niek van der Maas, Business Developer & Founder of MiniNova, conceptualized his creation as a mere side project.
"When we launched back in January 2005, we were the first BitTorrent site to offer a sophisticated search engine, sorting of search results, and categorization," Niek said. "We try to keep our lead by innovating and extending our website with new features. Many things changed in the past years, but one thing will always be the same: we try to offer the #1 P2P directory and search engine."
The MiniNova concept caught on. By May 2006, MiniNova's fledgling user base downloaded 400 million torrent files. Eight months later, in January 2007, Niek's creation would hit1 billion downloads - an achievement reached just days shy of its two-year anniversary.
The time between each billion accelerated in 2007 and, by May, MiniNova accounted for its 2 billionth download. MiniNova's growth was now stratospheric.
Only 4.5 months later, in November 2007, MiniNova reached the 3 billion torrent milestone. By now, MiniNova had confirmed its presence at one of the leading BitTorrent trackers. To accommodate its increasing popularity, server power was added.............
MiniNova has finally reached 4 billion downloads. With an exponential rate of growth, 8 billion downloads could arrive by the end of this year.
Here is the link to the full article:
http://www.slyck.com/story1664_MiniN...lion_Downloads
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