Dark Web, Deep Web, Clear Web 🕸, what’s the different?
There's a lot of talk about the Deep Dark web. These words are used interchangeably, but they are very different.
Surface or Clear Web
This is what most of us are familiar with.
Anything searchable by Google (hence indexed or crawled by search engines) is part of the Surface web 🕸. We may think that this is all the content on the internet, but you'll be surprised, it's estimated that this accounts for only 4% of the content on the internet.
Deep Web
This is where 90% of the content lives. You've come across it all the time, but probably didn't know that it was categorized as Deep Web. This is everything you CAN'T search with a popular search engine like google, (who uses Bing or Yahoo 🤷🏻♂️), DuckDuckGo, etc. Like, Uber ride fairs from point A to point B. You must do so by searching within their own databases, you have to search DEEPER. Things like eCommerce websites, property info, people search engines, traffic violation data,...