a part of the World Wide Web that cannot be accessed using conventional browsers, often used for illegal or criminal activity
Synonyms and related words
The internet
access number
account name
address
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The term deep web was first used in 2001 – its coinage is associated with US computer scientist and web expert Mike Bergman. The expressions hidden/invisible web appeared a few years earlier, and were originally used to refer to web pages that weren’t registered with any of the search engines and therefore appeared to be hidden/invisible.
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the Deep Web
nouncomputing
US /ˌdip ˈweb/
or the Dark Web
US /ˌdark ˈweb/
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a part of the World Wide Web that cannot be accessed using conventional browsers, often used for illegal or criminal activity
Synonyms and related words
The internet
access number
account name
address
Featured as a BuzzWord!
The term deep web was first used in 2001 – its coinage is associated with US computer scientist and web expert Mike Bergman. The expressions hidden/invisible web appeared a few years earlier, and were originally used to refer to web pages that weren’t registered with any of the search engines and therefore appeared to be hidden/invisible.