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Speckly in the blogs

Since our launch of Speckly Tools with our in-browser BitTorrent downloads, we've had a number of nice things written on us.  Here they are a few for your enjoyment!

slyck.com

http://bit.ly/boeXb7

p2pon.com

http://bit.ly/aPR3VK

Korben.info (French)

http://bit.ly/baJG5D

Cheers!
The Speckly Team

New! Speckly Tools

We've just launched Speckly Tools!

Find your torrent using our real-time search engine as before. Click on a search result link or our Quick Peek binocular icon. At the top, you will see Speckly Tools.

What does it do?

• Download in a browser! When you got to have it now, just click on the download button and your Torrent will download on the computer/device that you are using at the moment. No need for torrent software client.
• Tweet a search result! Simply click on the Twitter icon, login to your Twitter account, and hit the "Tweet" button.
• Email it! For those of you still in the Twentieth Century (yes, we're guilty as charged), simple click on the email logo to send it via email. Or just copy the link, if you just want to post the link on your blog, Facebook, or website.

Wasn't that simple!

Bigger, Better and Faster... And still the BitTorrent search simplified.

Happy New Year!

It was a mad and furious end of the year, but we're glad to announce our new BitTorrent real-time search engine! Building on the basic concept that simpler is better, we took pains to make our new engine and interface just as simple as before while giving you more. And if you haven't noticed that we launched the engine a couple weeks ago, the better! More importantly, we've been listening to your comments and suggestions. Here are the highlights of our new real-time torrent search engine:

• Faster, faster, faster... Still in real-time, but we have made our search engine much faster. Now you can get your results in less than 5 seconds!

• Exact match search... Yes, we've taken our time getting this feature out, but now that we have the infrastructure upgrades done (last fall) and the new engine deployed, we're getting to the fun stuff. Just as in Google, Yahoo!, and Bing, just put your search in quotes and our engine will only search for exact matches.

• Sorting... Although we believe our engine will produce the best results, per your requests, you can now sort by seed, size, and date. Slice and dice to your hearts content!

• Added ExtraTorrent... Although good in of itself, what is more important is that our new engine can search even more BitTorrent sites than before without speed loss to display search results. Starting with the Top 25 (2009) as compiled by TorrentFreak, we look to bring you the most comprehensive real-time torrent search engine.

And there's more! You probably won't care about these as these features are for us, but trust me, they are cool. Makes life easier for us, and in theory, will make life easier and richer for you!

Happy torrent searching!

The Speckly Team

Mea Culpa

Sorry foks. We were a little over confident this past weekend and left the Speckly website unattended these past couple days - everyone went Halloween trick-or-treating. Needless to say, the Speckly website went down leaving you without any service for an extended period of time.

In most instances, if there is an issue with the servers, they will automaticaly reboot. Unfortunately, you cannot predict every scenario, and in this instance, they went down requiring manual reboot. To remedy this for the future, someone on the team will always get an automatic notification of any issue. If there is any server problems, we hope to limit any down time.

OK. Now that we have that taken care of that unpleasantness, back to your Speckly searches!

The Speckly Team

1 Year Anniversary

We've hit the one year mark and we're still ticking! In that period, we've had over 4.2 million searches on Speckly. Whew - just our little contribution to the world of BitTorrents! Forgive us for being so bold, but we think you like what we've done.

In the past year, we've only done incremental visible changes while spending most of our time on behind-the-scenes upgrades. With the current usage and your feedback, it looks like we are doing the right thing. Moving forward, we plan to introduce more features per your suggestions as well as moving forward on our own feature list.

So, continue with your "Speckling" (and no, it wasn't some Speckly marketing guru that made it up, but a random person that made the comment), and keep an eye out as we will slowly introduce new features for your pleasure!

Thank you!
The Speckly Team

Speckly Adds SUMOTorrent

Wahoo! SUMOTorrent is now a part of our list of Torrent websites that we search. We've been a little late in the game with them (apologies to good folks at SUMOTorrent), but with their addition, you should have a good cross section of Torrent sites and get most of what you want from our search engine.

Anyway, more good things are coming your way in the next several months. Cheers!

Alpha uTorrent Client for Mac

For those of you who haven't already heard, here is a link to TorrentFreak detailing the release of an alpha version of uTorrent's Client for Mac. What does this mean for the Mac users? Well, Mr. Jobs, and the throng of Apple-geeks, can now claim the smallest footprint Torrent client... is now on the Mac.

[OK, my lame attempt at humor parodying Steve's thinnest, easiest, sexiest, everything-est claims.]

Regardless, we're big fans of uTorrent and happy that they are reaching out to other platforms.

New Function: Exclusion

Sometimes, search terms produce too many results. To help you limit your searches, we've launched the Exclusion function "-[term to be excluded]". How does it work? Here's an example:

palin -michael

I'm looking for content with/about Sarah Palin. If I search 'sarah palin', I might miss content that is just described as 'palin'. And if I search 'palin', I will get too many results with 'Michael Palin'. As a Monty Python fan, I'm not one to complain about the results, but I don't particularly feel like looking through all the results to pick out Sarah Palin content. So, if I type "palin -michael", the results will filter out all michael palin results. Although this does not necessarily mean all Michael Palin content is omitted, it does drastically reduce the number of results, and therefore, a higher likelihood that I will get 'sarah palin' content... Unless there happens to be a skit with Sarah Palin and Michael Palin that I'm unaware of...

Hmmm... the Lipstick Pitbull vs. the Killer Bunny.

Now searching NewTorrents

We've added NewTorrents per user requests. We've also removed Fulldls. We're in the process of testing other BitTorrent sites as well, so you may see some rotation. Why? Have patience grasshopper (For those of you too young to remember or seen the re-runs, check out the TV series, Kung Fu, with David Carradine. It's a classic line from a classic show.)

Let us know what other sites you would like to see by posting at the Speckly UserVoice page.

Cheers!

Quick Peek... You asked for it!

After launching our Quick Peek a few weeks ago, we had a positive response! A common response was, "Great option, but I didn't even know you had it until yesterday..." I guess we did too good of a job keeping things simple. To remedy that, we've added an simple binocular icon at the end of each listing. Click on that icon and it will launch a Quick Peek of the BitTorrent link. Let us know what you think!

Feel free to post your comments and suggestions on the Speckly UserVoice page.

Enjoy!