This map depicts hotspots of dark web activity related to illegal products, with larger
circles indicating more illegal activity.
Credit: Christian Mattmann, CC BY-SA
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
In today's data-rich world, companies, governments and individuals want to analyze anything and everything they can get their hands on – and the World Wide Web has loads of information. At present, the most easily indexed material from the web is text. But as much as 89 to 96 percent of the content on the internet is actually something else – images, video, audio, in all thousands of different kinds of nontextual data types.
Further, the vast majority of online content isn't available in a form that's easily indexed by electronic archiving systems like Google's. Rather, it requires a user to log in, or it is provided dynamically by a program running when a user visits the page. If we're going to catalog online human knowledge, we need to be sure we can get to and recognize all of it, and that we can do so automatically. https://www.livescience.com/57442-building-google-for-deep-dark-web.html
