The Top Dark Web Search Engines for 2023

Gokul
3 min readFeb 2, 2023

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Dark Web Search Engines

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Dark Web Search Engines

An online application called a “dark web search engine” is used to locate webpages in the unindexed “dark web,” a portion of the internet. Although dark web search engines can help you locate them, standard search engines do not list dark web websites.

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Best search engines to search the dark web

  1. Torch

The Torch search engine, a mashup of Tor and search, is the original search engine on the Tor network. Torch indexes a variety of links and dark web pages. Torch online search speeds are additionally rather quick.

2. DuckDuckGo

Like Google for the dark web, DuckDuckGo is a search engine. It serves as the Tor browser’s default search engine and is widely regarded as one of the greatest private search engines. With a search bar in the centre of the website and a results list that resembles Google’s, DuckDuckGo boasts a straightforward user experience. DuckDuckGo also functions as a surface website search engine, thus it’s not solely a deep web search engine.

3. The Hidden Wiki

The hidden version of Wikipedia is called The Hidden Wiki. Although it’s not quite a deep web search engine, it does make using Tor easier by offering a directory with surface web connections and indexed links to “.onion” domains.

4. Ahmia

Ahmia is a search engine for the surface of the internet that works with Tor’s onion services. Onion sites are frequently connected to criminal activities, but Ahmia intends to change that by screening Tor search results and removing phoney or dangerous websites that could be malware-infected.

5. Haystak

Haystack has more indexed webpages than any other deep web search engine, with over 1.5 billion indexed pages. Additionally, it is quick and aids with privacy and identity protection. Although the free version will occasionally show you advertisements, Haystack does not monitor your data or breach your privacy for commercial gain.

6. Not Evil

An excellent introduction to Tor-specific search tools is Not Evil, an onion dark web search engine. The phrase “Don’t be evil” is a play on Google’s previous tagline. Additionally, it doesn’t engage in site monitoring or advertising as Google does.

7. Candle

For Tor’s onion service websites, Candle serves as a web crawler and dark web search engine. Cyber criminals and other people who buy illegal items from dark web markets frequently use Candle’s index, which has over 100,000 web pages in it, including dark web marketplaces and forums.

8. Dark Search

A relatively new free search engine application called Dark Search attempts to increase accessibility to the dark web. Additionally, this dark web search engine provides free access to webpages and onion connections and has an intuitive user interface. Dark Search’s developer is presently working on a method to enable users to access restricted dark web forums using links in onion search engines.

9. Kilos

As the name implies, one of the primary activities on dark web markets where Kilos is used to locate and access is the sale of illicit drugs. Kilos embraces the darker aspects of the dark web and doesn’t censor search results, in contrast to many other search engines.

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Gokul
Gokul

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Cybersecurity Enthusiast | Smart India Hackathon |TN Police Hackathon Finalist | Linux | WebApp Penetration Tester | CCNA |Intern At Coimbatore CyberCrime Dept

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