![]() Here’s a really good infographic detailing the different aspects of the Deep Web. While Deep Web covers the entire unindexed internet, Darknet is a section inside the Deep Web, known for nefarious activities, like pedophilia and child pornography, drugs and all kinds of shady dealing (like a red light district of sorts). I should point out that there’s a distinction between Deep Web and Darknet. Five hundred times as big as the surface web is the only estimate I know.” No one has a really good estimate of how big the deep web is. I don’t know, to be honest, what fraction. “I think it’s a very small fraction of the deep web which search engines are bringing to the surface. “Many many users think that when they search on Google they’re getting all the web pages,” says Anand Rajaraman, co-founder of Kosmix. So, how big is this hidden part of the internet? In today’s world, if you want to hide something online, your best bet is the deep web. I hope you can see the appeal complete anonymity on the internet is a fantasy in today’s internet. While some use it to evade government censorship, it has also been known to be utilized for highly illegal activity. It is used for keeping internet activity anonymous and private, which can be helpful in both legal and illegal applications. Since then, it has increased in popularity among other corporate whistleblowers and journalists especially in repressive societies. The dark web is the hidden collective of internet sites only accessible by a specialized web browser. The Deep Web gained some media attention after Edward Snowden used it to acquire the information on the NSA’s global surveillance program which led to his now (in)famous whistleblowing act. ![]() ![]() So, to access it, you’ll need special software, like the Tor (The Onion Router) browser. They are connected via peer to peer networks, like your torrents and co. The deep web consists of a wide network of sites that are not indexed by search engines. Yeah, that’s how big the internet really is. But they are both referring to the same thing – the 90% part of the internet which you can’t access with normal browsers. ![]()
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