What is a deep web? All you need to know about the invisible network

For an average user, deep Internet may seem strange and not entirely legal. But, like much more, the Internet can not be divided into black and white. The deep web is not limited to secrets and criminal deals. The thing is that we do not quite use modern terms.

The Internet, like an iceberg, consists of the top - information that is accessible to ordinary search engines, such as Google and Yandex, and the deep Internet - a huge amount of information that can not be found with the help of search engines. However, not all this information is illegal.

The deep Internet has its secret, coded part - a dark web. Just what the news scares us is exactly in the "dark", that is, the hidden part of the deep web. Let's look at the definitions.

Let's start with the surface

The visible tip of the iceberg is everything that is standardized by search engines in a standard way. To understand how your favorite search engine works, go to a large news site or a popular blog and view the links you are interested in. This is what Google does for you - it looks through all the links on the Internet that may be relevant to the query you have entered.

Search engine indexing is a great way to search for new information and get familiar with it, but it's not all the data you can find.

Dive deeper

There are a number of reasons why search engines can not find certain information. Let's look at the simplest and most frequent of them. You searched for information on the news blog on the links, now go to the travel site and try to book hotel in Livorno from 10 to 20 February. True, there is one "but" - you can not use the search string on the site, search only for links. After a waste of time, you will realize that such specialized information on links is not available.

The results of specialized search on the data of the site itself are an example of what is hidden in the deep Internet. A huge part of the information stored on the Internet is available through a search on the site, and not through Google, but this does not mean that such data is illegal.

The deeper, the darker

The dark web is that part of the deep Internet that was deliberately hidden and can not be accessed through standard browsers and search engines. Some of this skillfully entwined dark webs can be found with the help of TOR Network, an anonymous network that uses special software, namely the Internet browser TOR and proxy servers.