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DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service

Posted by timothy on from the what-does-anonymous-want-to-see dept.

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."

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  1. Beavis & Butthead by KingAlanI · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hidden erection ... hurr hurr hurr

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  2. So who is really behind this search engine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Which is it?

    NSA?
    CIA?
    FBI?

    All of the above?

    Which of the social policing groups (with some Acronym name) do we have to thank for this search engine service?

  3. Re:GoodLuckWithThat by adamofgreyskull · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Nasty bits"? Do you mean 1s or 0s?

  4. Re:Fail. by rve · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're an idiot. Stop posting.

  5. What's in the name? by SharpFang · · Score: 4, Funny

    Infamous 4chan often plays various jokes on the users - like "wordfilters", you post one word, the post contains another. You write "moot", your post contains "doug" and so on. Over some time 4chan wordfiltered "loli" to "duck". The anonymous liked the joke so much that once it was removed, users kept posting "links to duck porn" and so on.

    I can't help but think there's a connection.

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  6. Re:How can it be hidden? by CarpetShark · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's hiding in plain sight. Like ninjas.

  7. Re:Duck Duck Go should be avoided - Here's why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    TL;DR: They tried to do something good for their users, implemented it slightly wrong which affected you in a minor way.

    Telling thousands of users that they are nasty and should be avoided sounds like an appropriate response.