[tor-talk] Terminology: Deep v Dark Web

[Katya Titov]

Roger Dingledine:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 06:44:11PM +1000, Katya Titov wrote:
>> So are there any useful stats on the size of the dark web?
> 
> Check out http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#oakland2013-trawling
> for some statistics about the number of hidden services as of about
> a year ago. It's not all that precise (and the fact that they could
> collect these stats represents several bugs:
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-services-need-some-love )
> but it's pretty darn clear that it's not "vast reaches of the
> Internet" -- more like on the order of 1000 hidden services, many of
> which aren't all that popular.
> 
> (Not that popularity is a good judge of the value of a hidden service;
> see example #1 on https://blog.torproject.org/blog/using-tor-good )

Thanks Roger, and Moritz too.

I've put together an article and placed it on the Tor Trac/Wiki:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/HowBigIsTheDarkWeb

It's a start, and I'll keep searching for more relevant information.

I have no idea how to make it appear on the front page, but then maybe
it should wait to see whether or not it is up to standards first.
-- 
kat