Deep web, dark web and darknet: differences

It all sounds very similar… but do you know the differences between Deep Web, Dark Web and Darknet ? In this article, we reveal all the differences between these 3 concepts that sound so similar, but in reality are not so much. But to solve all your doubts, today we will talk to you about the differences between Deep Web, Dark Web and Darknet. It is a fairly complicated topic to understand and explain, but we are going to try:

Deep Web, Dark Web and Darknet, differences

When we hear these terms they sound like "the worst", "the forbidden", "what we should never do… ": enter the hidden Internet. It is supposed that that prohibited content that we cannot see is housed there, and although in part it is, let's say there is much more, which is what we are going to tell you in the article:

Deep web

The Deep Web known as the hidden or invisible Internet, encompasses all the information that is online but that we cannot directly access publicly. That is, we cannot enter it as we enter Google to access all the available information. In this case, the information is hidden and private.

In many occasions we have normal pages that can be protected by paywall. Also pages that have a disallow in the robots.txt or pages that are generated when querying a DB. That is, temporary pages that are part of the Deep Web (when accessing travel BD, bank inquiries, etc.). Basically, anything on the Web can be stored on the Deep Web.

To give you an idea speaking in numbers, on the Deep Web we find 90% of the content of the WWW (World Wide Web). It is a fairly high percentage if we compare it with the Dark Web, which we show below and I assure you that the result will surprise you.

Dark Web

It is very common to confuse the Deep Web with the Dark Web, but they are not the same at all. Let's say that the Dark Web can only be accessed from specific apps. So much so, that on the Dark Web we find only 0.1% of the World Wide Web. It is really little, so we want you to be able to see the differences because they really exist.

In this case, the Dark Web is hidden in search engines but it already has that intention. Let's say that masked IPs are used and that they can only be accessed with a special browser that is part of the deep web, the Deep Web. With this we tell you, we find the main difference between the Dark Web and the Deep Web:

• The Deep Web is the compilation of everything outside the search engines. The Dark Web is part of the Deep Web although it is somewhat different.

For you to understand it better, in the Dark Web we find pages with own domains that you can only access with certain software. This is so that no one can access it, because although you will be able to do it by just doing a little research, let's say that it is not something that is naturally available to everyone, but that you have to take some discomfort and feel more than interest.

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• The Deep Web is the part of the Internet not indexed by commercial search engines. The Dark Web "cannot be indexed by anyone."

It is very common to read this from the mouth of many users. But it is not entirely true. Let's say that you are not going to enter Google and find access to the Dark Web, but there are search engines with which you can, as is logical, since you enter from somewhere.

• One of the best search engines that allow you access is Onion City.

Darknets

On the other hand we have the Darknets that are independent networks that make up the Dark Web. This term dates back years ago, more specifically to the year 2002 when it was leaked in a document. In that document it is detailed that it is a collection of networks and technology and that it will be a revolution. Actually, the shots go there, but there is much more.

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In order for you to fully understand the difference between Dark Web and darknets, you have to keep in mind that Dark Web is the hidden content of the Internet. But these darknets are the specific networks that host these pages, that is, they host that hidden content that is on the Dark Web. To give you an idea, it would be networks like TOR or I2P.

• That is, the Internet we only have one (WWW). However, we do have darknets deep in the WWW hiding what's inside the Dark Web.

The most popular darknet is Tor

There are many more and less popular darknets, but the most popular is undoubtedly TOR. It is an anonymous network with its own Darknet, which is the one that most people use, and which is also incredibly easy to use. Let's say, that you download everything you need and in less than 5 minutes you are with the TOR browser making your searches hidden by the network.

In this tutorial we already tell you how it works and how to configure Tor, so if you are curious about how to navigate anonymously you can try it (but do not even think of doing anything wrong). But it is quite interesting.

And although it is very common to confuse the terms of Darknets with Dark Web, now surely the difference between Deep Web and Dark Web has become clearer to you, because it is very likely that you were misusing these terms. Because we almost always hear hearing about Deep Web to refer to the "worst".

• Darknets are hidden networks. Dark Web is culture itself + content.

We hope that the differences between these 3 terms have become clearer to you. We know that it is very complicated despite the fact that we have explained it to you as best we can, but if you have doubts about Deep Web, Dark Web and Darknet you can ask us in the comments.