When we talk about the Deep Web , as its name suggests, we mean the invisible part of the World Wide Web that is not indexed in the main search engines, or is subject to various access restrictions. In this article we are going to talk about search engines to access the Deep web, and we will see the differences between the Surface Web, Shallow Web, Deep Web and Dark Web. We must also bear in mind that there are web browsers to access the Dark web very easily such as Tor Browser.
Before talking about how to access the Deep Web, we are going to clarify different very specific and important terms that you should know. In that sense, you should know that with the usual search engines that you use such as Google, Yahoo! or Bing will not be able to access it. The reason this happens is because they cannot crawl or index the content available on the Deep Web and therefore we will not be able to access it. If we want to see it, we must use other search engines that we will talk about later.
The WWW and its different sections
In case you don’t know, the World Wide Web (WWW) can be called “Ocean” as a metaphor and, in addition, it has different sections such as Surface Web, Shallow Web, Deep Web and Dark Web.
The Surface Web includes the familiar part of the Web that we browse. It includes the set of websites indexed by automated search engines. These search engines can seamlessly index and crawl all the content on the Surface Web. In that sense, it is available to everyone and includes all the websites of:
- Online shopping.
- Social networks.
- Traditional and digital media.
- Internet forums, blogs and more.
Next, we have the Shallow Web that is mostly used by developers and IT administrators. Here we have to include the databases stored by the developers, the servers, the programming language, etc.
We must also talk about the Dark Web and the Deep Web that together form the Invisible Web . The contents of both are hidden and not everyone can access them. On the one hand, there would be the Deep Web , among whose content would be online banking, email inboxes, cloud storage, academic or historical content and more. To enter we need some authorization to access. On the other hand, we would have the Dark Web refers to a set of anonymously hosted websites that are not indexed by the usual search engines.
Now it is time to present search engines to access the Deep web.
The WWW Virtual Library engine
The WWW Virtual Library , or translated the WWW Virtual Library is the oldest web catalog. In the upper right we can choose to see the main menu in English, Spanish, French and Chinese.
We are faced with an inventory that compiles the key links of various web pages, in different categories such as agriculture, international affairs, fine arts, economics, education and more. This virtual library is in hundreds of different servers around the world, and you can enter by clicking on this link .
Elephind: International Historical Newspaper Finder
Elephind is a one-of-a-kind website, offering us international historical newspapers. Here we have 200,311,212 articles from 4,345 newspaper titles.
One thing to note is that most of the newspapers that are offered are on the Deep Web, and are not indexed in Google or other traditional search engines. As a curiosity, in terms of antiquity, we can consult even newspapers from the seventeenth century. To make inquiries we will do it using its search bar, and if you want to try it you can do it from here.
Voice of the Shuttle
Voice of the Shuttle is a great tool that any user interested in the humanities can use.
Its subject matter includes a wide range of categories such as architecture, history, literature, music, philosophy and much more. We can consult this site from this link .
AHMIA the engine to navigate the Dark Web
AHMIA is a dark web search engine and you need to install the Tor web browser to use it. We will not be able to open the links without having the Tor browser installed. AHIMA indexes the hidden content published in Tor, you can access it from here .
With this we finish talking about how we can use different search engines to access the Deep web. In this article we have a tutorial that explains in more depth what the Tor network is and what it can contribute to us.
