The Deep Web: The Darkest Corners of the Internet
by Michael Collier on Nov 5, 2013 | Views: 309 | Score: 0
| Estimated Size (in terabytes) | |
|---|---|
| The Internet We Know and Use Daily (The Surface Web) | 19 |
| Everything Else (The Deep Web) | 7500 |
Sources:
content.time.com, newsstream.blogs.cnn.com
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The Deep Web is the part of the Internet that search engines do not reach. It allows users to buy and sell illegal goods/services, from drugs to fake IDs to al-Qaeda manuals and even murder-for-hire. By 2011, the Deep Web contained 7500 terabytes of information compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface Web.