New search engine for the dark web is modeled after Google.

The dark web just got a little less dark with the launch of a new search engine that lets you easily find illicit drugs and other contraband online.

Grams, which launched last week and is patterned after Google, is accessible only through the Tor anonymizing browser (the address for Grams is: grams7enufi7jmdl.onion) but fills a niche for anyone seeking quick access to sites selling drugs, guns, stolen credit card numbers, counterfeit cash and fake IDs — sites that previously only could be found by users who knew the exact URL for the site.

“I noticed on the forums and reddit people were constantly asking ‘where to get product X?’ and ‘which market had product X?’ or ‘who had the best product X and was reliable and not a scam?’” Grams’ creator told WIRED in a chat session. “I wanted to make it easy for people to find things they wanted on the darknet and figure out who was a trustworthy vendor.”

He wouldn’t provide his real name and asked instead to be referred to by the pseudonym he uses on Reddit, “gramsadmin.”

Although Grams is still in beta, it’s already serving up results from eight online markets, thanks to an API the developer made available to site owners to allow his engine to scrape their product listings.

Listings for drugs uncovered by the Grams search engine.

These include SilkRoad2, which popped up in the wake of the original Silk Road’s demise following the arrest of its alleged founder Ross Ulbricht and the seizure of that site by the feds.

Other sites included in the search listings so far include Agora, BlackBank, Cloud-Nine, Evolution, NiceGuy, Pandora, and The Pirate Market.

The search engine results include the vendor’s name and location and the price of the product.

The engine also includes a number of Google-like features including an “I Feel Lucky” search button (our test of it produced listings for high-quality crystal meth) and other features that allow users to filter out results for sites they don’t want to see and sort items for price and the most recent listings.

There are even plans for advertising a la Google adwords, according to the developer of Grams, who has been posting announcements about his progress on Reddit.

more @ http://www.wired.com/2014/04/grams-search-engine-dark-web/