The Dark Web refers to the untapped portions of the World Wide Web which is not indexed by standard search engines and only known to a limited number of users. It is accessible via the Tor network, an internet tunneling system that requires administrative permissions to enter. A user's activities on the Dark Web are not publicly visible, unlike a standard Web browser. This is because the Dark Web's hidden nature has rendered it virtually impenetrable by regular search engines such as Google and Yahoo.
The dark web consists of web pages that have been archived on websites like the Darkode, Torchan, or MySpace. These archived web pages are not visible to the general public, so they remain hidden from search engines. The reason for this is because they were archived using "DHT" - a method which prevents them from being indexed. For instance, if you were to search for "Toronto maple trees" using a standard search engine, "Toronto maple trees" would show up in the search results, but not the related "Toronto maple tree" webpage. "DHT" prevents regular search engines from indexing web pages that have been archived using this method.
What is archive-sharing-dark? Archive-sharing-dark is a service that allows users to make their own copies of web pages that have been archived on the dark web, so they can be viewed again. The service was released in February 2021, with the latest version featuring more than forty million links from over fifty thousand sites.