Comments on: The Dark Web: 500x Larger Than The World Wide Web

By: Martin Cosentino

Martin Cosentino — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:14:07 +0000

It is not surprising at all even when you consider that even at 100 pages for each person on the planet,
this number approaches 700 billion pages.
Don’t forget that the Defense ministries of the major
countries of the world ALONE account for nearly a
TRILLION PAGES OF NON-ACCESSIBLE INFORMATION,in addition to all the private proprietary non-accessible
pages that account for another 500 billion pages world
wide. My perfect metaphor for this phenomena is a
cruise line shipe with a swimming pool stopped over the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean.

It is not without a sense of prophecy that Stephen Hawking, the famous Oxford physicist and astronomer predicted that by the year 2035, this planet will be
be visible as “glowing” from outer space from the
google-watts of electricity it will be consuming by that time. Because of the heat generated by the BILLIONS of servers necessary to support a vast ‘visible’ world wide web AND an’invisible’ web,
it will be almost impossible for human existence, or any other living organisms to survive this electric
‘furnace’ Sounds like we have heard about this problem
before – large bubbles popping(subprime mortgages/derivative default swaps/credit card fraud/
“Is there an echo in this room, or what!!!???
Surf while you can, while the water is still cool. . .!!!

By: DKinsella

DKinsella — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:39:20 +0000

Is anyone else not surprised by the fact that there are over 1 trillion URL’s even in the surface web?

That means that even if everyone on the entire planet had a website (which I assume they don’t) than each person would need slightly under 200 pages on their site.

With restrictions in China when it comes to internet use this means that a small percentage of the world, i.e. the major players and corporate institutions dominate the web while the rest of us are lucky enough to have a Facebook!

By: Him

Him — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:40:22 +0000

In deep web, no one can hear you scream….

By: Video Game Dork

Video Game Dork — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:29:45 +0000

Robolasse’s comment = win.

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:19:13 +0000

…….Lost somewhere in The Deep Web………..

That sounds even creepier than “Lost in in the Universe”….

By: Robolasse

Robolasse — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:42:21 +0000

In the deep web nobody can hear you type in capitals!

By: PK

PK — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:45:20 +0000

Most of the ‘deep web’ are porn sites, where you need to pay to get in. Of course it’s 500x more and developing the fastest!

By: roselle

roselle — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:53:50 +0000

How do they know this? How is it measured?

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:38:15 +0000

if “The deep web is the fastest growing category of new information on the internet ” and the deep web was 550 times larger than the regular web in 2001, then 550 is not enough today.
We need DeepGoogle!

By: Matthew Brown

Matthew Brown — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:19:37 +0000

I think something like this is to some degree to be expected really.

In every society there are sides that aren’t seen, some of them are bad, some are simply ever changing.

The internet is just another society, however it is one that is ideally suited for enormous and rapid growth, and it has done just that.

It’s interesting to see the estimated statistics on it though, but when you think about it, most people at one point or another probably use parts of the dark web without even realising it.

By: Morpheus

Morpheus — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:45:19 +0000

Knock, knock, Neo.

By: pwscott

pwscott — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:31:35 +0000

Holy crap! Anybody ever compare the web to the Big Bang Theory. Something is going to explode. :p