FAQ

Live search means that knaben will reach out directly to all websites and grab the result during a search.

The results returned will be a "live" and contain the actual stats for the link during that instance.

Live search will also include results from the cache, and all in all will return a mix of both

See the icon on the left to see when this link was last cached

Use this option if you're having trouble finding something, or are looking for something very new

Fast search only searches the cache without reaching out to all websites in that instance.

It may be fast, but it may give outdated results back.

This is the number of days since the system last saw the magnet. A green or blue checkmark means it was last seen today

The number and the color changes depending on how and when it was last checked.

Blue checkmark

A blue checkmark means the magnet link was recently scraped, and that the updated seeders and peers has been reflected accordingly.

There has been a few cases where the indexer is giving incorrect results, or that the torrent gets deleted, never to be seen again, and thus checking the magnet health is one of the many ways Knaben checks the health of a magnet.

Green checkmark

If it is green, means it was recently checked via Live Search.

Grey/Purple/Red checkmark XX XX XX

The longer ago it has been since it was last seen, the more wine/red color it will get.

The virus detection looks for common strategies used by malicious actors

These include links that has an unrealistic amount of seeders, high seed to peer ratio, small file size and recently uploaded.

This is how the calculation is done:

score[0] = (1.00 or 0.00) If category is PC
score[1] = minimum(1.0, seeders / 50000)
score[2] = (1.00 or 0.00) If Seeders is 10 times more than peers
score[3] = min(1.0, 52428800 / (size + 1))
score[4] = (1.00 or 0.00) If Pirate Bay and contains PC category
score[5] = min(1.0, 1209600 / (now + 1 - date))

virus = sum(score) / score.length

There is only ads on the proxy page.

We want people to move away from the proxy and use the main website instead.