The Deep Web (also called the Deepnet, Dark web Dark Net, the Invisible Web, the Undernet or the Hidden Web) is World Wide Web content that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexed by standard search engines. It should not be confused with the dark Internet, the computers that can no longer be reached via the Internet, or with a Dark-net distributed file-sharing network, which could be classified as a smaller part of the Deep Web.
There is concern that the deep web can be used for serious criminal activity.
Mike Bergman, founder of Bright Planet and credited with coining the phrase, said that searching on the Internet today can be compared 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. Most of the Web’s information is buried far down on dynamically generated sites, and standard search engines do not find it. Traditional search engines cannot “see” or retrieve content in the deep Web—those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically as the result of a specific search. As of 2001, the deep Web was several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web)
10FACT No 10
The Deep Web is online content not indexed or catalogued. It contains 7.500 terabytes of information, compared to the 19 terabytes of the Surface Web.
09FACT No 9
Other names for Deep Web are: Invisible Web, Under-net and Dark Web. 96 percent of the internet is beyond search engines such as Google and Bing.
08FACT No 8
A security blooger was targeted for trying to expose credit card fraudsters hiding on the Deep Web. They sent a gram of heroin and a SWAT team to his home.
07FACT No 7
The Deep Web can be accessed via the software Tor, which allows users anonymity. It gets 80 percent of its budget from the U.S. govt. and rest comes from the Swedish govt. and other groups.
06FACT No 6
The site was involved in 1.2 billion worth of transactions, making 80 million dollar in commissions.
05FACT No 5
Bit-coin is the dominant currency of the Deep Web. Its creator goes by the alias “Satoshi Nakamoto”, which is Japanese for “thinking clearly inside the foundation”.
04FACT No 4
Activist communicated on the Deep Web to organize the Arab Spring revolution. Edward Snowden also used to leak files of NSA’s mass surveillance programs.
03FACT No 3
Cicada 3301 is a treasure hunt that emerged in 2012, taking players into the Deep Web. Puzzles focused on code breaking, leading to theories that it’s a recruiting tool for govt. agencies.
02FACT No 2
The U.S. intercepted al-Qaeda messages o the Deep Web, leading to closure of 22 U.S. embassies. It’s estimated that more than 50.000 extremist websites exist on the Deep Web.
01FACT No 1
Services such as hit-men for hire and arms dealers are available on the Deep Web. One hit-man’s price list states: “Ordinary person – 20.000 euro” and “High rank govt. official – 100.000 euro”.
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