Ahmia
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Ahmia is a clearnet search engine for Tor's hidden services created by Juha Nurmi.
Overview
Developed during the 2014 Google Summer of Code with support from the Tor Project, the open source[1] search engine was initially built in Django and PostgreSQL. It indexes .onion URLs from the Tor network, excluding those containing a robots.txt file.[2] The search engine also filters out child pornography[3] and keeps a blacklist of abusive services.[4]
The service partners with GlobaLeaks's submissions and Tor2web statistics for hidden service discovery[5] and as of July 2015 has indexed about 5000 sites.[6] Ahmia is also affiliated with Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Rights, an organization that promotes transparency and freedom-enabling technologies.[7]
In July 2015 the site published a list of hundreds of fraudulent clones of web pages (including such sites as DuckDuckGo, as well a dark web page).[8][9] According to Nurmi, "someone runs a fake site on a similar address to the original one and tries to fool people with that" with the intent of scamming people (e.g. gathering bitcoin money by spoofing bitcoin addresses).[10]
See also
Note: This topic belongs to "Internet " portal
- Comparison of web search engines
- List of search engines
- List of search engines by popularity
References
- ↑ Greif, Björn (14 July 2015). "Gefälschte .onion-Websites spähen Tor-Nutzer aus". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.de/88240605/gefaelschte-onion-websites-spaehen-tor-nutzer-aus/.
- ↑ "Google Can't Search the Deep Web, So How Do Deep Web Search Engines Work? : Networks Course blog for INFO 2040/CS 2850/Econ 2040/SOC 2090". https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2017/10/18/google-cant-search-the-deep-web-so-how-do-deep-web-search-engines-work/.
- ↑ juha (7 September 2014). "Ahmia search after GSoC development". https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/ahmiafi.
- ↑ Messier, Ric (2017-07-14) (in en). Network Forensics. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781119329183. https://books.google.com/books?id=quMsDwAAQBAJ&q=ahmia+search+engine&pg=PT455.
- ↑ "About us". https://ahmia.fi/about/.
- ↑ Leyden, John (7 Jul 2015). "Heart of Darkness: Mass of clone scam sites appear". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/07/dark_web_cloned_site_scam_resurgence/.
- ↑ "The new search engines shining a light on the Deep Web". 2014-09-28. https://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/10376/how-to-search-deep-web-tor/.
- ↑ MacGregor, Alice (1 July 2015). "Hundreds of Dark Web mirror sites 'booby-trapping' Tor users". http://thestack.com/hundreds-dark-web-mirror-booby-trap-tor-010715.
- ↑ Marwan, Peter (14 July 2015). "Anonymität von TOR-Nutzern durch Fake-Websites gefährdet". ITespresso. http://www.itespresso.de/2015/07/14/anonymitaet-von-tor-nutzern-durch-fake-websites-gefaehrdet/.
- ↑ Weissman, Cale Guthrie (July 2, 2015). "Someone is creating fake websites on the dark web to try to lure in and hack people". https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-of-spoofed-websites-show-up-on-the-dark-web-2015-7.
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