Google indexes ≤16% of surface Web/misses all of the Dark Web.

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  1. Taxonomy26

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    Ever wonder what people mean when they say 'Dark Web'?
    Well, we know it much better than we know 'Dark Matter'


    Most Of The Web Is Invisible To Google. Here's What It Contains
    A roadmap of the Internet's darkest alleys
    By April 1, 2015
    https://www.popsci.com/dark-web-revealed

    You thought you knew the Internet. But sites such as Facebook, Amazon, and Instagram are just the surface. There’s a whole other world out there: the Deep Web

    It’s a place where online information is password protected, trapped behind paywalls, or requires special software to access—and it’s massive. By some estimates, it is 500 times larger than the surface Web that most people search every day. Yet it’s almost completely out of sight. According to a study published in Nature, Google indexes no more than 16% of the surface Web and misses all of the Deep Web. Any given search turns up just 0.03% of the information that exists online (one in 3,000 pages). It’s like fishing in the top two feet of the ocean—you miss the virtual Mariana Trench below.

    Much of the Deep Web’s unindexed material lies in mundane databases such as LexisNexis or the rolls of the U.S. Patent Office. But like a Russian matryoshka doll, the Deep Web contains a further hidden world, a smaller but significant community where malicious actors unite in common purpose for ill. Welcome to the Dark Web, sometimes called the Darknet, a vast digital underground where hackers, gangsters, terrorists, and pedophiles come to ply their trade. What follows is but a cursory sampling of the goods and services available from within the darkest recesses of the Internet.

    Things You Can Buy
    1. Drugs

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    There is no dark web, just the web
     
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    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Why on Earth would Google make it easier for ANYONE to break the law...do you have any idea how quickly they would be destroyed from both sides? The bad guys do not want to be found and the good guys don't want you to find them.
     
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    It is that part of the web that can't be reached by normal browsers. Those who want to reach it need to download the Tor browser.
     
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    squidward Well-Known Member

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    So? It's all the same.
    Nobody is required to allow Google to index them or be accessible to some other private company's browser
     
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    Which drugs can one obtain?
     
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    squidward Well-Known Member

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    Whatever the feds say, as they prepare to expand their citizen spying powers
     
  8. wyly

    wyly Well-Known Member

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    my cyber security son says you are correct...it's not someplace anyone should want to visit.
     

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