DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service 87
An anonymous reader writes "Viewable with Tor installed, search engine DuckDuckGo has erected a hidden service for secure, encrypted searches through the Tor network. While past attempts at hidden service search engines failed due to uptime or quality issues, DuckDuckGo marks the first time a real company operating a public search engine has offered a solid search engine as a hidden service for Tor users."
Re:GoodLuckWithThat (Score:5, Informative)
Clown Porn [google.com]
Dolphin Sex [google.com]
Live goat porn [google.com]
Smurf Sex [google.com]
iranian leader Ahmadinejad gets a dirty sanchez [google.com]... DOH! You have failed me, Google! Go now and think about what you've done!
So you see, you don't need Tor to find some nasty shit on the Internet. You just need one of those pink things between your ears.
Doesn't search hiddent Tor sites... (Score:1, Informative)
Yeah, a new search engine... It doesn't search hidden services, it just operates as a hidden service. If you want it to...
Oh, and as noted above [slashdot.org] it requires JavaScript to see any more results than the first few.
Re:Fail. (Score:1, Informative)
"How stupid is that, for a Tor hidden service?"
relax, it's new. let's all provide feedback to the admin of the site with the suggestion of improving it by disabling javascript for the hidden service. the tor website has extensive documentation about hidden services if you don't know what they are, go read. irc for tor devs and users: irc.oftc.net #tor
duckduckgo hidden service had a topic on the Tor mailinglist (or-talk) public may read and subscribe to these at Tor's website, click on "Docs" at the top, scroll down, subscribe to tor users or-talk.
the only failure I see here is proper communication through proper channels. did you write to the duckduckgo admin?
duckduckgo provides a free hidden service and could use a few tweaks but instead a coward moans, "fail." let's see you provide something better, quicker, without anyone quipping at your initial trials.
"How is this better than using any other search engine via Tor? At least Google/Scroogle/Ixquick/[many others] don't require script to perform such a very basic task"
do you understand how a hidden service works? searching google directly while using tor is often a useless venture, shooting you to a captcha page which often doesn't work even when you type and retype the same captcha. scroogle only recently wised up and began referring tor users to their SSL enabled page. how many other established search engines do you personally know of offering a free tor hidden service? zero according to my research.
ssl certs are often duped through tor, i'd trust a hidden service over ssl certs through tor. accessing a site using ssl does have some pitfalls, research browser tech and ssl repeat visits and what, if any, the browser spills about you with repeat visits.
it's new, it's free, it's unique, have a grain of patience and offer something constructive rather than honking the fail horn, anybody can do that and it requires no effort.
Re:What's in the name? (Score:4, Informative)
That was a SomethingAwful practice that 4chan later picked up, iirc. Possibly predates SA as well, but I think they popularized it on webforums, at least.
Re:Fail. (Score:3, Informative)
did you write to the duckduckgo admin?
I've been using DDG as my main search engine for a few months, and this is well worth doing. I've used the feedback link a couple of times, to report cases where the search results are poor or there's a glitch in the UI, and both times I've had a speedy reply and the issue has been fixed.
Of course, this might mean that I'm the only person using DDG, but I hope not. They have a very good privacy policy and a much better UI than any of the other search engines that I've tried.
I used Clusty for a bit, because I liked how they presented the results (DDG actually does something similar for disambiguation), but their index was so small that I kept giving up and going back to Google. DDG has a link to the Google search at the end of their results - I've only clicked on it a couple of times, and in both cases I've also failed to find anything useful with Google.
Re:What's in the name? (Score:3, Informative)
rickroll was a variation of duckroll, which in turn came to life after 'loli'='duck' was removed, but in turn 'duck' was wordfiltered to 'egg'. thus eggroll-duckroll...
Re:Duck Duck Go should be avoided - Here's why (Score:2, Informative)