wtf is magnet-and-torrent-search-engine?

This project is a search engine for magnet links and torrent files. In plain terms, it lets people search for downloadable content shared through BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file-sharing system. The creator built it as a personal project and notes it has collected over 45 million magnet links in its first week of running. The system gathers torrent data in two different ways. First, it uses a web crawler that actively browses the internet looking for torrent links on public pages, similar to how a search engine discovers websites. Second, it runs a DHT crawler that takes a more passive approach. DHT is the decentralized network BitTorrent uses so peers can find each other without a central server. The crawler pretends to be a regular participant in that network, and when other users look for a particular torrent, the crawler takes note and saves that torrent's information. This passive method naturally surfaces what's popular, if lots of people are searching for a file, the crawler hears about it repeatedly. The project also handles the tricky problem of Chinese text segmentation, which is the process of breaking a search query into meaningful words. The creator built a custom word-splitting tool using a dictionary borrowed from Chrome's language data. They acknowledge this approach has limitations, newer movie titles sometimes get split incorrectly, and the plan is to eventually pull movie names from Douban (a Chinese film database) to improve the dictionary. The project also aims to handle resource aliases, so that searching for a movie's Chinese name would also surface results for its English title. The README is written in Chinese and dates back to early 2015, so it is unclear how much of this roadmap has been completed since then. This would appeal to someone who wants to understand how torrent search sites work behind the scenes, or a developer interested in the practical challenges of building a search engine around decentralized file-sharing networks.