

The Deep Web is meant to keep people out of need-to-know information.

It's gated by special, very specific technology. There's no way to "accidentally" stumble across the Dark Web. Dark Web content is not designed merely to hide important information from prying eyes, it's meant to keep regular internet users away. Regular browsers can't access the Dark Web - it requires a special browser that allows users to hide their IP addresses. The Dark Web is a set of sites that are hosted on an encrypted network. Your regular browser can access any part of the Deep Web, as long as you have the right login credentials. There's nothing really nefarious about it - if it's content that's meant only for registered users to see, it's part of the Deep Web. Anything that's behind a login screen, within an intranet, or in a hidden archive is the Deep Web.

In order for a search engine to return content as a result, that content has to be indexed. The Dark Web and the Deep Web are both areas of the internet that the average user can't access through search engines, but the similarities end there. The rest is the Dark Web or the Deep Web. When you do visit your favorite websites, you're only scratching the surface of what's out there. Believe it or not, that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the internet - there are even more places that you don't get to see. Search engines are able to return millions of results for anything your heart desires.
