During December, all self-respecting search engines produce an overview of the most popular search terms of 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 2013 Nelson Mandela, Paul Walker and iPhone 5s 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.

There is no central database of searches available, but Kickass.to, one of the top three torrent sites in terms of visitors, was kind enough to share the most popular search terms of 2013 with us. This list is based on millions of searches and gives an indication of what people were looking for on BitTorrent networks during the last 12 months.

Topping the lists this year is YIFY, which refers to the popular movie release group. The group has millions of dedicated followers who use the ‘YIFY’ tag to find its recent releases. The movies World War Z and Iron Man 3 complete the top three.

The top 10 contains three other movie title related searches: Man of Steel, Star Trek Into Darkness and Now You See Me. The search term 2013, often used to find recent movies, is listed in sixth place.

Traditionally, TV-shows are much sought after on BitTorrent as well, and it’s no different this year. Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Dexter made it into the top 10, followed by The Walking Dead and Suits further down the list.

Adult related searches are surprisingly absent among the popular search terms, and the same is true for music and game searches. The only non-video search in the top 50 is Windows 8 in 40th place.

Finally, it’s worth mentioning that ITA, a term used to find Italian content and the most searched for keyword in 2011, dropped out of the top 50 entirely. This can be explained by the fact that KickassTorrent was blocked by all Italian Internet providers last year.

Below is the full list of the 50 most-entered search phrases on Kickass.to (minus site specific searches). This list will be different for each torrent site, but we assume that the top searches will be popular on other indexes as well.

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1. yify

2. world war z

3. iron man 3

4. breaking bad

5. man of steel

6. 2013

7. game of thrones

8. Star Trek Into Darkness

9. now you see me

10. dexter

11. pacific rim

12. the lord of the rings appendices

13. despicable me 2

14. this is the end

15. french

16. jack reacher

17. the walking dead

18. oblivion

19. a good day to die hard

20. elysium

22. suits

22. fast and furious 6

23. arrow

24. true blood

25. the conjuring

26. after earth

27. White House Down

28. Django Unchained

29. percy jackson sea of monsters

30. 2 guns

31. gangster squad

32. olympus has fallen

33. under the dome

34. jack the giant slayer

35. warm bodies

36. life of pi

37. pain and gain

38. Hansel and Gretel 2013

39. spartacus

40. windows 8

41. grown ups 2

42. 1080p

43. hindi

44. red 2

45. skyfall

46. the hobbit

47. movie 43

48. argo

49. how i met your mother

50. telugu