What are better sites for torrent search? I've actually had good luck with ISOhunt.

Kickasstorrents is the best atm in my opinion. TPB is good but their legal issues make them unreliable technically and I prefer non-magnet links for use with rtorrent.

rtorrent supports magnet links just fine if you're using a recent version (As in one from the past year or two).

TPB works fine enough for me.

So I went to try that site out. Where the hell is the download link?! They're all ads!

For legit torrents, using Google doing a "<search term> torrent" might be the best option.

For others, use torrentz.eu and Adblock.

Thanks for the advice. However, all I can find on torrentz.eu are links to other torrent sites. Is it merely an aggregator? I thought they hosted their own torrents, it's less useful if they just send me to thepiratebay anyway.

Ah right -- Torrentz is a meta search engine and doesnt host any torrents.

The way I use it is to search for the torrent, and then use the results to pick a torrent site [that appears in the results] to stick with. Then that gets shut down, I head over to Torrentz, run another search, pick another site and so on..

Ah, I see, that makes sense now. I thought they would host the torrents themselves, but every link that looked like it would be a torrent download was an ad. Your clarification helped, thanks.

If you're trying to find anime, I recommend nyaa.se. It's where most fansubbing groups upload torrent files to.

For torrent searching alone, torrentz.eu or bitsnoop. For a community, kickasstorrents.

http://thepiratebay.sx/ ? I admit their search function is terrible, but it has nearly everything. They've had great uptime for a while now too.

There is btdigg.org, which builds its database by crawling the bittorrent distributed hash table.