What is the dark web and how to get to it?

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You've probably thought at least once about how big the internet is. Thoughts about the size of the internet usually come to us when we're searching for something and get lost in all the information that appears on our monitor, which often takes more time than we have to find what we're looking for.

If you type the term “marketing” into Google, you will get approximately 16,100,000,000 results that you could waste your time on, if only you had that much. Do you think that is a lot? That is just the surface of the internet and only a small fraction of its size.

The Internet is divided into 3 parts that are clearly separated from australia whatsapp list other. You can imagine the Internet as an iceberg floating on the surface of some secret, cold and mystical sea.

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What is on the surface is also the part of the internet that we use every day. This is the surface web , the internet that we access through well-known search engines like Google, Yahoo, or Bing and on which we use browsers like Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Safari.

The surface web is home to all the sites you use every day – Facebook, the newspaper you read, this blog, YouTube, Ebay, Amazon or Reddit. In fact, any term you type into Chrome that is indexed by Google will appear on the surface web for you to freely open, view and use.

The surface web consists of indexed web pages that can be accessed via links via Chrome, Bing, or Yahoo. The search results that are found on the links we access them through are ranked based on relevance, keywords, and hyperlinks, among other things.

If you type a term into Chrome, and that term is indexed on Google, you will find it and be able to access it. But that's where the surface internet ends. For many, this surface internet is enough and they will never need anything else, even if they surf all day. Many never even think that there is something beneath the surface.

Although, it's also good to know that the surface web is actually a smaller part of the internet. The unindexed part of the internet, which includes the deep web and the dark web, is 500 times larger than the surface web. If you think the internet you use every day is big, try to imagine how big this hidden part is.

And what is actually below the surface? Something called the deep web.

What is the deep web ? The deep web is the part of the internet that is below the surface and is not completely dark. Imagine you are writing a research paper and you need a book. Of course, you type the title of the book into your browser and what happens? Nothing. Or rather, nothing significant except a few links that mean nothing to you in life.

Why? Because the data you need, related to the book and the library it's in, is unindexed and resides on the deep web. To get more data, you'll need to connect to the library's website and type the data into their search engine to get the information you need.

Nothing strange. Almost every time you search for something on a website, you go to the deep web in search of information. Want to buy a table lamp? You connect to a home improvement store's website, type the term "night lamp" into the search engine, and boom – you're on the deep web, where you can now search for the lamps the store has to offer, prices, availability, and similar details.

The deep web contains data and content that is invisible to search engines. Although the dark web is part of the deep web, they should not be confused. The deep web is neither mystical nor illegal (although it is not the entire dark web either). It simply contains data, or rather – web pages, that for some reason cannot be found through a browser.

The deep web contains various databases, locked web forums, legal documents, medical data, the content of your email, the content of your social media profiles, online bank account data, scientific and academic data, and basically any data that logically should not and cannot be accessed with a few clicks. That is precisely why such data is only accessible to hackers, not ordinary internet users who cannot stumble upon such data by accident.

Look at the deep web like this: if you access a page that requires you to log in with your name, email, password, or other information, then you are accessing data that is on the deep web.

That's good because you really don't want anyone typing your name into Google and getting all your information, including your online banking details and access to your email or social media profiles, right? The deep web serves to protect data and privacy, and hide sensitive information from those who shouldn't have access to it.