The 'common web' is a made up name for what is actually the surface web in search engine parlance. The infographic also perpetuates the fallacy that non-clearnet content somehow makes up most of the Internet. A January 2012 attempt at a corresponding corrected infographic was also created, but never gained comparable popularity due to reliance of text and facts. In this (mis)infographic, the further down, the more insane and preposterous the content becomes. The concept of such 'levels' of the deep web was produced by an enterprising individual, sharing similarities with Dante's Inferno in its structure. It helped feed the sensationalism and further imprint into the public’s minds what exactly the darknet was. At the time Tor and the Silk Road first gained popularity and crucially at the same time the deep web search term started to be conflated with the dark web. (Click for an enlarged version)Īn infamous infographic was created in 2011 or early 2012. In other words, it's not the same thing as a web crawler which scavenges Onionland. Not to mention, the multiple HiddenWiki clones exist to filter out the garbage and present interesting content. Also note that the table does not specify whether or not the illegal services are actually legitimate.

This makes more sense if you just check out Deep Web in a Nutshell covered below. Note that the the category 'None' contains nearly half of Hidden Service content. Garbage Web based Hidden Services in February 2016 CategoryĪn accurate portrayal of Hidden Service content distribution can be found on Wikipedia for February 2016. As long as people are obsessed with finding the next terrible thing on the dark web, these scam and troll sites are going to continue-feeding the exaggerated myth of what ultimately boils down to just a small collection of websites.īut so long as general media keep covering alleged drug busts and other criminal activities on the darkweb, the fallacious legend will live on. “ ”And besides, the normal Internet already hosts loads of child porn, and is where human trafficking definitely takes place. While it is true that there are drug and illegal markets on the darkweb, as illustrated in deep dot web's top drug-markets list for example, this is also true for the clearnet: Why the darknet is bullshit Content īy 2013, with the Silk Road shut-down all over the news, the term 'Deep Web' embedded itself into mass consciousness as this dark scary thing out there. 3.1 PC World - Meet Darknet, the hidden, anonymous underbelly of the searchable Web.

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