Meaning of Deep Web | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The portion of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by conventional search engines.
   Internet
2. The Dark Web (the part of the Web only accessible via restricted networks).
   Internet, proscribed

Equivalents

Examples

“In contrast, most data in the deep Web are structured data records stored in backend database systems and there are usually no hyperlinks among these data records. Due to the existence of extensive links among Web pages in the surface […]”

“Some of these information resources are “deep web” or “hidden web” assets, not easily accessible from typical Internet search engines.”

“The classification of such web databases according to their application domain is an important step towards the integration of deep web sources.”

“With the proliferation of deep web repositories...hidden behind proprietary web interfaces...efficient ways of exploring contents in such hidden repositories are of increasing importance in a wide variety of applications.”

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