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Interesting concept. How is it different\better that btdigg.org?
From the whois: both domains are registered in China, but engiy.com seems to be located in Shanghai. Not that it makes much of a difference.
In addition he is open source, there is no much difference
btdigg has a better interface (more sort options, higher information to pixel/(number of clicks) ratio, exposes quality votes).

engiy returns more results and the interface seems to be more entertainment media focused.

That logo is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Just the logo?
Does it depend on jurisdiction? Site operated by Chinese person in compliance with Chinese law, then what could rest of the world do?
Here's a machine translation of the about page:

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About Engiy

Engiy is a BT search engine, in order to solve the Bittorrent protocol itself does not implement resource search function.

Currently Engiy total index to around 200 million magnetic link (duplicates removed), and 200,000 day rate. Just from the data, said, Engiy should index is the most comprehensive resource fastest Bittorrent search engine.

Engiy obtained through DHT network resource information to the user is downloading, including file name, size, etc., specifically, to achieve a Bittorrent in bep_0003 , bep_0005 , bep_0009 , bep_0010 four agreements.

Because of this, according to the Bittorrent protocol Engiy only get information to info torrent file, so Engiy on the server does not save any torrent file, at the same time, the tracker does not provide any service, generally speaking, so that means Engiy at large most countries can legally operate.

Meanwhile Engiy not provide any services in addition to BT resources search outside. Such as video online play (you can use as Baidu network disk ). Engiy search results are usually just a magnetic link, which will help the Internet to share resources for download, you also need to install additional software to download (such as uTorrent , BitComet , Thunder , etc.).

Engiy front end uses on Bootstrap , so pages are responsive, you can use any equipment, such as computers, mobile phones, pad, etc. use it.

Sensitive content

If Engiy index to content infringe your right to justice, or you have the copyright, please contact us , after verifying the information, we will remove it.

If you search for related promotional terrorism, child abuse, bestiality, etc.-humanity, anti-ethical, when anti-moral resources, you have an obligation to promptly us feedback.

Source

Engiy originally developed by Node.js developed, but after running for some time to find, memory, and CPU usage are beyond the control that VPS operators will automatically kill the crawling process. To know Engiy is only running at a minimum of $ 10 per month with a lower VPS. Later, with the Go has been significantly improved after the re-implementation of memory and CPU usage, currently running in good condition.

Engiy will open it? Yes.

Open source Node.js DHT reptile hosted on Github. Related technical details can be seen here , if in doubt you can give me a message on Github.

Source: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

More (translated) info on the tech: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

I personally wish torrent search engines stop using DNS systems (at least centralized ones) and HTTP servers. What they could do instead is use the DHT feeds idea [1]; share their feed URI (a hash of a public key) which is a mutable DHT key, and have that point to a .torrent of their whole crawled database - I doubt their magnet_link -> description database is larger than a few dozen megs. When new torrents need to be updated, the DHT key is mutable and they can point to a new torrent - users will then just get the new stuff. Idea is laid out here: https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/issues/19#issue...

Sure it's more complex than typing somesite.com in your address bar, but it's not that much more complicated.

1. http://libtorrent.org/dht_rss.html

I use BitChe from convivea.com it's opensource and very performant