NZBIndex Review

Overview

NZBIndex 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 and best of all its free

The home page shows frequent searches which is nice if you are looking for some ideas to start with. If you are interested in their current statistics you can go to this page http://www.nzbindex.com/groups/ for the latest info but for reference NZBIndex has indexed 726 groups totaling 3.3 Petabytes of information!

Price

No charge. NZBIndex is advertiser supported.

Additional Features

You can create an NZB file from your search result.
You can choose 25, 50, 100, 250 search results returned per page
You have the ability to mark results as spam and help improved the NZB search index.
http://www.nzbindex.com/groups/ – shows the binary retention status of each indexed group.
Forum available – although this forum is not used much – the NZB index is pretty self explanatory
DMCA takedown notice – if you see copyrighted material you can quickly assist in the this process.
RSS feeds available – RSS feeds are available so you can always be searching for your specific search terms.

Conclusion

NZBIndex is presently our top recommendation for a Usenet search engine. We love the RSS search feature and the ability to return many results up to 250 per page. Finally having an index that supports near 400 plus days given the difficulty doing so is quite impressive.