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haxxiy on 22 June 2012
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TWRoO said:
haxxiy said:
crissindahouse said:
TWRoO said:
Gilgamesh said:

The deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information compared to 19 terabytes of information in the surface Web.

The deep Web contains nearly 550 billion individual documents compared to the 1 billion of the surface Web.

Wut?

Pretty sure there is a shit-ton more than 19 terabytes of information on on "the surface web". Hell even 7,500 sounds really low... I reckon there is probably more than 7,500 terabytes of info even if you take out video data.

Also if "individual documents" means files (as in .htm web pages or whatever) then 1 billion is another ridiculous lowball.

wiki says:

"Estimates based on extrapolations from a study done at University of California, Berkeley in the year 2001,[3] speculate that the deep Web consists of about 91,000 terabytes"

so in 2001, when internet was still a joke compared to nowadays, the deep web had 91k terabytes

Yeah. The web as a whole is probably in the high yotabytes by now.

Anyways I just checked a  file with gateways for some deep web sites with illegal stuff  (dozens of gateways for each) and most of them end with .to, .ro, .kr, .ru and .ca. Mmm... Russia and Korea? Not sure about the others.

Dunno about that... a yottabyte is huge.

Actually, here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte

"As of 2009, the entire World Wide Web was estimated to contain close to 500 exabytes.[7] This is a half zettabyte."

So if that's true the current WWW is probably around a zettabyte.

Oops, actually I mistook exa- for yota-. 10^24 is obviously waay beyond reach haha.