2. 
The Deep Web consists of Web content that is not
part of the surface web

It contains pages that are not and cannot be
indexed by standard search engines
(Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc.)

Network of anonymous users that make use of their
anonymity to conduct business and store content
that is either illegal or of no interest to majority of
internet users

Special software (TOR, Freenet, etc.) is required in
order for internet users to gain access to and make
use of the deep web

3. 
Public information on the Deep Web is currently 400
to 550 times larger than the commonly defined World
Wide Web

The Deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of
information compared to 19 terabytes of information
in the surface web

Contains nearly 550 billion individual documents
compared to 1 billion documents in the surface web

Deep Web currently has more than 200,000 websites

The Deep Web is currently the largest growing
category of new information on the Internet

4. 
Total quality content of the Deep Web is 1,000 to
2,000 times greater than that of the surface web

Deep Web content is highly relevant to every
information need and market

More than half of the Deep Web content resides in
topic-specific databases

95% of the Deep Web is publicly accessible
information that is not subject to any fees or
subscriptions

Deep Web has a large community of hackers,
scientists, drug dealers, assassins, perverts, terrorists,
kidnappers, data miners, and others

5. 
The Deep Web makes E-Commerce a possibility for
individuals and businesses that engage in illegal activity,
much in the same way the legit businesses are making
use of E-Commerce

E-Commerce is practiced by the following individuals
- murderers/hit men
- drug dealers
- rapists/child molesters
- spies
- ammunitions/weapons dealers
- terrorists

6. 
The Deep Web will effectively put E-Commerce in a
negative light

Focus will be placed on the disadvantages of
technology instead of the benefits

Will raise issues of legitimacy in E-Commerce

Could potentially force the government and other
monitoring bodies to violate privacy rights of legitimate
E-commerce users for the sake of security
(passwords, private information, confidential financial
data/records/transactions will be accessed)

7. 
The Deep Web will continue
to grow and expand in the
next 2 years, and long after

Governments won’t be able
to do anything significant to
control it

The Deep Web will continue
to gain more power and
popularity amongst ECommerce practitioners

8. 
Developments in advanced
technology will improve tracking
on the dark net, but anonymity
will prove to be users’ greatest
asset

Struggling businesses will
consider moving to the deep
web to carry out more
unrestricted and unmonitored
operations that will increase
revenue

Occasional successful busts of
illegal activity in the Deep Web