Haystak

Haystak Darknet Search

Haystak is a prominent search engine within the Tor ecosystem, renowned for its reliability and minimal downtime for Onion services. It boasts an extensive index, featuring over 1.5 billion pages and 260,000 Onion services. Notably, a portion of these 260,000 sites is now archived, attributable to either service discontinuation or prolonged inactivity.

The design of the Haystak search engine, like many Tor search engines, is deliberately minimalist to ensure faster load times on the Tor network. Its homepage is characterized by a simple layout, showcasing its distinctive needle-in-a-haystack logo alongside a search bar.

Haystak offers a premium version that enhances the user experience by eliminating advertisements and providing additional features. These premium services include access to historical data of websites, akin to the Wayback Machine used for clearnet sites, and advanced search capabilities utilizing regular expressions and API searches. Conversely, the free version of Haystak displays ads on the homepage and above search results, maintaining the basic functionalities of the search engine.