You may have heard about this mysterious place on the internet called the ‘Deep Web’. Interest in the deep web and dark web has been on the rise following a few high profile data leaks, a growing interest in online privacy, references in mainstream media or the widely publicized FBI investigation into online marketplace Silk Road that exposed the extent of online drug trafficking.
But what is exactly the deep web? Well it’s not actually a ‘place’ but rather anywhere other than the visible web that is crawled, indexed and accesed through links fetched by search engines like Google.
