Binsearch Review
Overview
Binsearch.info offers an excellent and FREE service to help you search Usenet. While it isn’t perfect, it is one of our favorite Usenet search engines at the moment and best of all its
Price
No charge. (Funded by advertisements.)
Additional Features
- You can create NZB files.
- Ability to connect to their website via SSL
- Check current retention levels here – http://binsearch.info/groupinfo.php
- Plus you can connect via SSL to their search page.
- Experimental RSS support
Conclusion
Binsearch is presently a recommendation for a search engine for a Usenet search engine. We might give a slight edge to their competitor NZBindex.com because binsearch does not offer RSS feeds for search terms not a frequent search cloud.
That said, what binsearch is offering is quite impressive – they seem to be making continual improvements both in the numbers of days indexed and the speed of the search results returned.
Binsearch Alternatives
If you are looking for alternatives to Binsearch. We recommend that your check out our listing of Best NZB sites and then also take a look at our list of Usenet Search Engines.
Definitely , keep your eye on binsearch however as they seem to be growing, expanding retention and generally keeping up with the times.
More Misc Details
Binsearch indexes every binary newsgroup that is supported by the major Usenet providers. However by default only the most popular 500 groups are searched. Choose ‘search other groups’ to search the other 6000+ groups.
