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amatulic t1_ixb0i0x wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Charted: The Dark Web Price Index 2022 by L_Cranston_Shadow

TOR sites aren't searchable on sites like Google, so they fit that original definition. Google's objective is to index everything, so the open-internet sites remaining that haven't been searched by one of the major search engines are probably negligible.

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[deleted] t1_ixb16cj wrote

Not true at all, lots of major sites aren't searchable by Google. Like Google can't see my private social media accounts.

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SnooComics2162 t1_ixb1ryl wrote

Deep Web - unsearchable internet stuff like medical records, private social media accounts Dark Web - only accessible through Tor or another similar browser

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[deleted] t1_ixb25wa wrote

Hmm, interesting although those terms have shifted in the last 20 years.

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amatulic t1_ixb6g6k wrote

That isn't dark web, that's just putting a noindex meta tag on HTML pages you don't want search engines to index. or password-protecting pages with htaccess. Anyone who knows how to get to the pages can still do so with a normal browser. The fact that they aren't indexed by search engines doesn't make them "dark".

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[deleted] t1_ixb7905 wrote

The distinction you're referencing didn't start until 2009, I'm just showing my age here using the old definition.

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