Popular torrent sites get millions of visitors every day, but what have all of those people been searching for? Today we present the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2014, a list of the top 50 most searched for phrases and keywords on one of the most-used public BitTorrent indexes during the past year.

During December, all self-respecting search engines produce an overview of the most popular search terms of the past year.

These lists give insight into recent trends, and in 2014 Robin Williams, World Cup and Ebola were the top trending searches on Google.

But what about torrent search engines? With billions of searches every year it’s worth taking a look at the most-entered keywords on the dominant file-sharing network.

A few years ago we started the BitTorrent zeitgeist tradition with help from one of the largest torrent sites around. Based on a sample of hundreds of millions of searches, this list should give a decent overview of what people are looking for.

2014’s number one query is the same as last year’s. YIFY is the name of a popular movie release group that many people follow to see what new pirated titles are available.

The term 2014, often used to find recent movies, comes in second place, followed by 1080p in third. Last year “1080p” was in 42nd place suggesting that people were increasingly looking for high definition video. The sixth and eight place for newcomers YIFY 720p and YIFY 1080p confirm this trend.

In fourth place we find NeZu, another popular movie release group that is listed in the top 50 for the first time this year.

The first content related search query is Guardians of The Galaxy in ninth place. Other popular movie searches are Lucy and Dawn of The Planet of The Apes taking the 23rd and 24th spots respectively.

TV content is also popular with Game of Thrones in 12th and The Walking Dead in 16th place. Perhaps surprisingly, there are no searches related to music titles in the top 50. The only music related term is Discography in 11th place.

Finally, a game release group made it into the top 50 this year. The query Nosteam, referring to the ^^nosTEAM^^ group, is one of the highest newcomers and is listed in 15th place.

Below is the full list of the 50 most-entered search queries on one of the most popular torrent sites on the Internet.

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1. yify

2. 2014

3. 1080p

4. nezu

5. hindi

6. yify 720p

7. french

8. yify 1080p

9. guardians of the galaxy

10. 3d

11. discography

12. game of thrones

13. movies

14. tamil

15. nosteam

16. the walking dead

17. ita

18. dvdrip

19. telugu

20. android

21. malayalam

22. hindi 2014

23. lucy

24. dawn of the planet of the apes

25. nl

26. apk

27. ps3

28. lynda

29. 720p

30. 2013

31. need for speed

32. arrow

33. +18

34. batman

35. hercules

36. x art

37. pc games

38. how to train your dragon 2

39. 22 jump street

40. divergent

41. teenage mutant ninja turtles

42. edge of tomorrow

43. The fault in our stars

44. godzilla

45. mac

46. wwe

47. the equalizer

48. walking dead

49. maleficent

50. the flash