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<br> <br><p>The inaccessible nature of the deep Web may conjure images of hackers doing nefarious things, but that's not really accurate.</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>© aetb/iStock/Thinkstock</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>What a tangled web we weave, indeed. About 40 percent of the world's population uses the Web for news, entertainment, communication and myriad other purposes [source: Internet World Stats]. Yet even as more and more people log on, they are actually finding less of the data that's stored online. That's because only a sliver of what we know as the World Wide Web is easily accessible.</p><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <br><p>The so-called surface Web, which all of us use routinely, consists of data that search engines can find and then offer up in response to your queries. But in https://extrememining.org/ that only the tip of an iceberg is visible to observers, a traditional search engine sees only a small amount