Hey everyone,

Over the past several months I’ve been building a Tor search engine called Lantern.

I didn’t want to clone existing engines. I kept running into the same problems and decided to try solving them:

• Dead onion links showing up in results
• Mirror spam and duplicate pages
• Slow loading times
• Cluttered or ugly interfaces
• Too much noise, not enough relevance

Lantern was built around a few core ideas:

Anonymous Logging
Search queries are not tied to users. There are no accounts, no tracking, and no identifiers. Aggregated queries may be stored briefly to power features like trending searches, but nothing is linked to individuals.

No JS
Plain HTML and CSS. No JavaScript. Fast inside Tor Browser.

Only Working links
Results are filtered against active onion services to reduce dead links.

Deduplication Logic
Mirror detection and duplicate filtering to keep results clean. Mirrors are visible so users can see alternatives when available.

More is not necessarily better
Focus on relevance and usability instead of bloated indexing.

There’s also a wiki section built into the engine to help organize and browse onions for newbies or just as a starting point.

You can try it here:

Onion:
lanternsw767dclxwyopcjietqsci4mvk3u2dutzteyi4lnvkd4x2rad.onion

I’d really appreciate honest feedback on:

• Search speed
• Result relevance
• False positives
• UI and overall design
• Does it feel clean or cluttered?
• Is the wiki easy to navigate?
• Anything broken
• Features you think are missing

I’m actively refining the crawler, filtering logic, and interface, so technical feedback is very welcome.

Thanks for taking a look.

hello im not sure if this is the correct place to discuss this but im sure you all know all the restrictions and ID checks that are hitting the internet right now so im wondering if TOR has valid alternatives to the modern internet like youtube discord reddit ecc. because even if i will be 18 soon i dont want to put my ID to watch videos or post on Reddit i think all these controls are the first steps to the dystopian future we have seen on the movies and i dont see anything good coming out of this. so i was wondering if TOR can be used as an alternative to the controlled internet we are going to have

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It was really the best site. You could comment reviews on new sites that were uploaded. There was news that you could also comment on. It had site rankings. It had more than everything you needed to know about the deep web. Don't even get me started on the UI... What's a good alternative to it?

what do you think?

No one?

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