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The ways of making a Deep Web’s content

Milica Djekic

Through a recent time, a Deep Web has attracted an attention of many security agencies and
services due to its correlation with a criminal and terrorist community. A lot of people worldwide
are getting familiar with this technology and many of them would use it on a regular basis for,
more or less, legal, semi-legal or completely illegal purposes. In such a case, what we could
identify as a key question here would be how it’s possible to create a content for a Dark internet
and why it’s making its tendency to become bigger and bigger over a time. Through this quite
comprehensive review, we would attempt to deal with these issues as well as leave some open
questions within our concluding remarks to some future discussions and research.

How a Deep Web would work

A Deep Web is a internet content which is around 500-600 times bigger than a Surface Web.
The Surface Web is a part of the internet that is indexable and queryable by standard search
engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing and so on. [3] Basically, the both – a Surface and a
Deep Web are the internet content which is stored into searchable databases, so it’s possible to
access them only if you have the right technology. [2, 6] As you know, a web business is
nothing else, but rather some web content stored into databases somewhere on the web server.

For instance, we could try to rely on some sources which we would find on the internet and
which would claim a quite opposite things. Firstly, what dragged our attention was the question
which sort of content would get included into a Deep internet. By some, the crucial difference
between a Surface and a Deep Web is that those Surface Web pages are static, while the Deep
Web pages are dynamic. [2, 3, 6] On the other hand, by another source, some of the modern
search engines like a Google are capable to crawl even dynamic pages if their parameters are
not change in terms to restrict so [4].

What we can notice here is those two quite reverse claims would come from so respectful
sources, so we would not try to disapprove any of them, but rather suggest some future
researchers or web developers to try to examine these claims in order to obtain some evidence
which would be good enough to rely on them.

Is it hard at all to make a Deep Web content?

As everything else regarding cyber technologies, making a web content is just about playing
with different parameters as well as opportunities that some web building tool could offer to
you. From our practical experience, it’s so easy to adjust parameters in, say, Wordpress or
Joomla! and make your webpage, more or less, convenient for indexing or, more or less,
friendly to your search engine’s crawling mechanism. In other words, it’s only about how skillful

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