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surface Web

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surface Web
Content on the World Wide Web that is available to the general public and for indexing by a search engine (see spider). Also called the "crawlable Web" and "public Web," links to the pages on the surface Web are displayed on search engine results pages. Descriptive text on the pages as well as metatags hidden within the Web pages identify the page's contents for the various search engines. Contrast with deep Web. See search engine optimization and spider.


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He points out that the web has two parts-the surface web, which is made up of perhaps 60 billion pages; and the deep, which, at some 900 billion pages, is about 15 times larger.
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