DuckDuckGo (a better search engine than Google, since it doesn't collect data on you...)

I now use searx.me instead of DDG ;)

It's kind of like bittorrent

yes it is similar as far as I am aware.

Unless you are a content producer, I'm not seeing any incentive to host a ipfs server. What am I missing?

No real reason other than wanting to increase decentralization.

Thank for reading!