A Web of Intrigue

The Deep Web, also known as the Dark Web, is a section of the internet that I happened to stumble upon on Sunday. I was completely bored, so I just went for a trawl around 4chan, and lo and behold, I found a thread about "the deep web". I read down and I discovered something I had never heard of, the deep web.

Here are some facts about this:     (courtesy http://thebotnet.com/guides-and-tutorials/49828-how-to-access-the-hidden-wiki/)

· Public information on the deep Web is currently 400 to 550 times larger than the commonly defined World Wide Web.

· The deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface Web.

· The deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the 1 billion of the surface Web.

· More than 200,000 deep Web sites presently exist.

· Sixty of the largest deep-Web sites collectively contain about 750 terabytes of information — sufficient by themselves to exceed the size of the surface Web forty times.

· The deep Web is the largest growing category of new information on the Internet.

· Deep Web sites tend to be narrower, with deeper content, than conventional surface sites.

· Total quality content of the deep Web is 1,000 to 2,000 times greater than that of the surface Web.

· Deep Web content is highly relevant to every information need, market, and domain.

· More than half of the deep Web content resides in topic-specific databases.

· A full ninety-five per cent of the deep Web is publicly accessible information — not subject to fees or subscriptions.

Amazing right? Its almost 2000 times GREATER than the surface web. Have you ever wondered where pedo's share their stuff? Or were Al-qaeda plans their strikes? Or drug deals are negotiated? Not implying that you are a pedo, dear reader, but I myself always wondered how these people managed to get away with it when I used to think that the internet was so easily navigated by search engines.

But, its not all bad stuff. The deep web is made up mostly of data. A researchers dream! 50 years of internet data stored in this database of doom! MUAHAHA. Not quite, but when researches manage to develop a search engine for this data, the web will be revolutionised, and data recovery and research will be amazing!

If you want to access the deep web, you have to look at the pages through indexed sites, and the easiest and most popular of these is the Hidden Wiki. Of course, you have to use a special browser called Tor to access it, and if you want to take a look, just remember, its not illegal, and as long as you dont click on anything illegal (and believe me they are blatantly labeled) you will certainly be intruiged.

To access it read this tutorial: http://thebotnet.com/guides-and-tutorials/49828-how-to-access-the-hidden-wiki/        
                                                                     

Composition of the Deep Web in a Pi Graph

           N.B: For your own sanctity do NOT look up 'hard candy' on the Hidden Wiki