Deep Web What it is ?
Deep Web What it is ? By Prashant Mali The surface web is the entire Internet for most users, but it represents a fraction of available content. The surface web is that part of the Internet that is accessible by standard search engines, either by indexing, or through use of the site’s IP address. By contrast, the deep web is unfamiliar to most of the public and is larger by orders of magnitude. Characterised as the submerged part of the iceberg, researchers describe the deep web’s size in various and conflicting ways: over 96 percent of content on the world wide web, unguessable, 7500 terabytes, infinite, and 500x the size of the surface web. Although imprecise, these estimates indicate that the deep web contains much more content than the surface web. Generally speaking, the deep web is the content not indexed by standard search engines, like Google. The only U.S. court that has attempted to define the deep web, described it as follows: "The portion of the We