

The dark web – despite the media attention – is a small part of the deep web which is only accessible through a special TOR network. This deep web is estimated to make up about 95 percent of the entire web.

Just think of this like searching for a library book using the facilities’ own index files – you might have to be in the library to search there. The deep web also includes most academic content handled directly by universities. On such pages, you can use their own internal search function not a search engine like Bing or Yahoo or another external search engines. the website of the European Union) where you can search for special topics or forms. Deep sites include company intranets and governmental websites (i.e. Just think of the deep web as an archive, containing an unsorted pile of websites and resources which are largely inaccessible. It includes the information about you that data brokers like LocalBlox might be storing in a public – but unlisted – Amazon server. The term "Deep Web" doesn’t mean anything nefarious, it simply refers to the unindexed web databases and other content that search engines can't crawl through and catalog – things like registration-required web forums or even your Gmail account. Image credit: Shutterstock Going deeper into the web
