
And this software makes everyone (and everything) completely anonymous. It’s made up of websites and data that aren’t just sitting there, free for all to access by Google searching or typing in their web-address. The rest of the internet – known as the ‘Dark Web’ or ‘Deep web’ – is around 400 to 550 times larger than the public internet. This is what some refer to as the ‘surface’ internet a collection of at least 4.7 billion web pages that anyone can access.īut that number – while huge – barely even begins to describe the actual size of the what’s out there. Readily accessible and relatively harmless, if used correctly. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, blogs, games, Wikipedia – everything that you know and love about the internet. But like an iceberg, the vast majority of it hides undetected and invisible under the surface.Ī huge number of websites are open freely to the public. While most of us might believe that the internet stops at the last page of Google’s search results, the reality is that it’s far, far larger.
