I have recently tried to find some torrents on duckduckgo.com and alas, it gives out some crap to some sponsored links and other shit. That duckduckgo is a complete shit. So where would you find torrents now?
Now i use ixquick.com and unbubble.eu. Startpage and duckduckgo suck, inglorious bustards.
Search engine’s importance hardly can be overstated.
So my advise is stop using ddg and starpage and move to the good ones.
Yacy engine is a good idea too but too badly working not displaying all results.