That’s why such a large percentage (as much as 94%) of the entire web is not returned in Google Search. Google considers the majority of the content on the entire web highly irrelevant and useless to its users. That means that Google wants to minimize the amount of time users spend searching for certain queries. Google’s purpose is to show the most relevant information to all of its users quickly and easily. It might sound weird that Google doesn’t index these pages, but it does carry some logical sense. Perhaps the best-known tool used to access the dark web is the Tor browser. The dark web is web content that exists on darknets, which are overlay networks on the internet that require specialized software, configurations and authorization to access. Such data includes medical records, financial information, research papers, private forums and networks, and other content.

The deep web is made up of content that search engines such as Google do not index. The portion of the web that most internet users browse on a daily basis is what’s known as the “ surface web.” This is the part of the web that is readily accessible by the general public and is indexed by Google, Bing and other search engines.Īll the websites and content that isn’t being shown on the “surface web” is generally referred to by many as the “deep web,” “dark web” or “invisible web.”

Did you know that Google only shows you a glimpse of all the websites that actually exist? It’s estimated that the entire web is roughly 500 times larger than what Google returns in Google Search.

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