Ahmia- Search engines for the darknet - (Onion Links 2024)

Ahmia is an open source search engine for Tor hidden service websites. You can test a working search engine at

Creating a search engine for anonymous websites running inside the Tor network is an interesting task. Tor allows web servers to hide their location, and Tor users can connect to these authenticated hidden services while the server and user remain anonymous. However, without a good search engine, it is difficult to find web content, and therefore a search engine is needed for the Tor network.

Web search engines are essential for navigating and searching the internet. There were no search engines to find web content from hidden services, so I decided to create a search engine specifically for Tor. I have registered ahmia.fi and started development on it as a side project in 2010.

This development included programming and testing web scanners, thinking about ways to find hidden service addresses (since the protocol does not allow enumeration), exploring the Tor community and implementing a filtering policy. Moreover, I have implemented an API that allows other Tor services that publish content to integrate with Ahmia.

As a result, Ahmia is a working search engine that indexes, searches, and catalogues content published on Tor's hidden services. In addition, it is an environment for the exchange of significant statistics, analytical data and news about the Tor network itself.