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The good and the bad of the Deep Web
Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine – September Edition “Security in a serious way”
Introduction
The Deep Web (or Invisible web) is the set of information resources on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines, according a raw estimation of some security experts clear web represents only a small portion of the overall web content, the remaining part is unknown to the majority of web users.
![cover dark web](http://phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cover-dark-web-214x300.png)
Ordinary web users are literally shocked when understand the existence of the Deep Web, a network of interconnected systems, not indexed, having a size hundreds of times higher than the current web, around 500 times.
To explain the Deep Web I use to cite the definition provided by the founder of BrightPlanet, Mike Bergman, that compared searching on the Internet today to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed.
Read full description with marketplace data (invisible anonymous trade).
See Also:
Deep Web Technolgies (Abe Lederman)