Which term describes the part of the WWW not discoverable by standard search engines?

• A. Deep web
• B. Surface web
• C. Dark web
• D. Intranet

Answer: (A)

The key idea is that not everything on the web is crawled and indexed by search engines. Pages that are behind login forms, databases, or generated dynamically on demand aren’t picked up by standard crawlers, so they don’t show up in search results. This large portion of the web is called the deep web. The surface web, by contrast, consists of the publicly accessible and indexable pages that search engines routinely catalog. The dark web is a subset of the deep web that requires special software and configurations to access, often with anonymity. An intranet is a private network used inside an organization, not part of the public web. So, the term that describes the part of the WWW not discoverable by standard search engines is the deep web.