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Nitpicking: Technically it's not DNS as it doesn't resolve names to addresses. Maybe CNAME over Wikipedia?
Nitpicking nitpicking: "Technically" CNAME is DNS insofar as DNS is "technically" defined at all.
Pretty neat! Similarly, I often use Wikipedia to find translations for specific technical terms that aren't in bilingual dictionaries or Google Translate. If you go to a wiki page about a term, there are usually many links on the sidebar to versions in other languages, which are usually titled with the canonical term in that language.
Out of curiosity, how well does Wiktionary fare in this regard?
> If you Google "Piratebay", the first search result is a fake "thepirate-bay.org" (with a dash) but the Wikipedia article lists the right one. — shpx How interesting. Bing doesn't do this, which leads me to believe it's not a matter of legality. Is Google simply electing to self-censor results that it'd prefer it's used not to know about? Strange move, especially given the alternative Google does index is almost def…
> If you Google "Piratebay", the first search result is a fake "thepirate-bay.org" (with a dash) but the Wikipedia article lists the right one. — shpx How interesting. Bing doesn't do this, which leads me to believe it's not a matter of legality. Is Google simply electing to self-censor results that it'd prefer it's used not to know about? Strange move, especially given the alternative Google does index is almost def…
I'm not sure how long that's been the case. The actual site at their normal domain seems to have been down for a few months, with a 522 cloudflare timeout. I'm curious if that's the case for you as well, or if it's my ISP blocking (I wouldn't expect to see the cloudflare error if my ISP was blocking but I don't know). I bring this up because if the site is unresponsive from wherever you're searching (or perhaps unres…
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I'm not sure how long that's been the case. The actual site at their normal domain seems to have been down for a few months, with a 522 cloudflare timeout. I'm curious if that's the case for you as well, or if it's my ISP blocking (I wouldn't expect to see the cloudflare error if my ISP was blocking but I don't know). I bring this up because if the site is unresponsive from wherever you're searching (or perhaps unres…
For me the address on Wikipedia times out with a 522 in exactly the same way. Bing's top result of the .party address works fine. I strongly suspect this is an ISP issue, but it is interesting that Google seems to have no knowledge of the .party domain.
P.S. Yes, it's their new official "readable" onion site link.
> If you Google "Piratebay", the first search result is a fake "thepirate-bay.org" (with a dash) but the Wikipedia article lists the right one. — shpx How interesting. Bing doesn't do this, which leads me to believe it's not a matter of legality. Is Google simply electing to self-censor results that it'd prefer it's used not to know about? Strange move, especially given the alternative Google does index is almost def…
As many have pointed out, this just makes it easier for actually malicious sites to get traffic.
[0] https://torrentfreak.com/google-downranks-65000-pirate-sites...
Interesting idea but: - How do you handle ambiguity? e.g what happens when sci-hub.idk and scihub.idk differ? - Aren’t you concerned by the fact that Wikipedia is open to editing by the public?
Maybe use WikiData? The slower rate of updates might work in your favour to avoid vandalism.
> If you Google "Piratebay", the first search result is a fake "thepirate-bay.org" (with a dash) but the Wikipedia article lists the right one. — shpx How interesting. Bing doesn't do this, which leads me to believe it's not a matter of legality. Is Google simply electing to self-censor results that it'd prefer it's used not to know about? Strange move, especially given the alternative Google does index is almost def…
[0] https://blog.iusmentis.com/2017/06/19/eu-hof-verklaart-the-p...
Interesting idea but: - How do you handle ambiguity? e.g what happens when sci-hub.idk and scihub.idk differ? - Aren’t you concerned by the fact that Wikipedia is open to editing by the public?
Maybe use WikiData? The slower rate of updates might work in your favour to avoid vandalism.
With the increasing trend to pull data from Wikidata into Wikipedia, this is I think becoming less of an issue – even if nobody is watching the Wikidata item, if some vandalised property is exposed in a Wikipedia infobox, that increases the odds that someone will notice the vandalism. However, there are always going to be more obscure items which lack Wikipedia articles, and more obscure properties which don't get displayed in any infobox, and for them the risk of vandalism is greater. (Plus, it is possible for a Wikipedia article to override the data in Wikidata with its own values; this is done for the English Wikipedia Sci-Hub article, for example – Wikidata is including all the historical web addresses, Wikipedia only wants to display the current ones – I don't think it is technically possible yet to filter out just the current ones, so instead Wikipedia is manually overriding the addresses from Wikidata.)