Search engines like Google only index about five percent of the actual internet, leaving the remaining ninety-five percent floating in what is known as the Deep Web.

A closer look

Search engines like Google only index about five percent of the actual internet, leaving the remaining ninety-five percent floating in what is known as the Deep Web. While media outlets love to portray this hidden realm as a dystopian cyberpunk black market for assassins, the vast majority of it is just boring academic databases, private corporate intranets, and the backend of your terrible online banking portal. The internet is essentially a massive, terrifying iceberg, and the tip sticking out of the water is just social media influencers arguing with each other and infinite recipes that require a thirty-page personal backstory. It is somehow more depressing to realize that the mysterious hidden web is mostly just protected medical records and forgotten tax documents