Tidbits

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:01 am

A roundup of various bits and pieces.

isoHunt Tee photos
Saw photos posted by some of you guys for our 2 T-shirts ( here and here ). Thanks guys! Keep the photos coming!

SETI@isoHunt
Join the isoHunt team and hunt some aliens (thanks joenobody)

Changelog
Haven't updated in a while on what's changed on isoHunt, so here's a list.

Changelog wrote:

Smarter query parsing. One example is now you can do a query like so: "candy blue OR green" without brackets. Queries without boolean operators are all required terms, just as before and what you would expect from Google and elsewhere.

Bigger index

Faster torrent scrapes (much faster). Completely revamped backends means we can scrape increasingly more seed/leecher stats (22+ million peers and going), while stats update up to every hour.

Full internationalization (almost anyways). You should have noticed we've been indexing non-english sites for a while, but recently I've added proper charset detection and conversion so you can search using European and Asian characters, and results would turn up without funny characters. I know there's a few Chinese blogs linking here, so yes, we index Chinese sites, and you can now search in Chinese.

Spellcheck, related searches everywhere

Pretty urls (like http://isohunt.com/torrents/<query>)

Tweaked isoHunt Rank

FIXED: problems with uploads and torrents getting mysteriously banned
and as a corollary, smarter filtering on fakes and "bad" torrents without banning what shouldn't have been banned. Automatic filters are always a guessing game though, so report on what's wrong here and here .