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87. DEEP WEB


The Deep Web is the part of the Internet that search engines do not reach.

There is a lot of information hidden in the form of websites that standard search engines do not find because those pages do not exist until they are created dynamically through a specific search.

It makes use of some anonymity network like ‘Tor’ which encrypts the data and then distributes the small packets of data across multiple relays set-ups by users across the world.

These websites with the help of Tor are launched on onion network i.e. they make use of onion URL.

One need to install Tor Browser Bundle, if one wants to access those websites which uses a special DNS server.

The Tor browser guides the route and in due course hops many times so as to keep the identity of website and the user anonymous i.e. they keep the IP address unknown.