DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service

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."

Comments

Re:GoodLuckWithThat

[Greyfox]

Oh right, like you can't find nasty bits with a regular search engine. Here, allow me to illustrate. *rolls up sleeves* Oh, Google!
Clown Porn
Dolphin Sex
Live goat porn
Smurf Sex
iranian leader Ahmadinejad gets a dirty sanchez... 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.

Re:What's in the name?

[Trepidity]

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.

[TheRaven64]

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?

[SharpFang]

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

[yegg]

Thx for the feedback. That toolbar is no longer available. The sites it was flagging were parked pages. What happened was is that there was a delay between registration and when the bot could check it out, but it would have been removed automatically. I'm sorry for the inconvenience this caused you.