A Dark Search Engine
February 27, 2015
If anyone mentions the dark Web or the invisible Web, most people would make a Star Wars reference and insert a Darth Vader quote. While getting in touch with your “dark side” can help even out your personality, searching the dark Web reveals a whole new world of information. The only problem is that there isn’t a strict search engine for it. Wired explains that “Darpa Is Developing A Search Engine For the Dark Web.” Darpa is creating a dark Web search engine to help law enforcement discover patterns and relationships in online data about illegal activities.
“The project, dubbed Memex, has been in the works for a year and is being developed by 17 different contractor teams who are working with the military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Google and Bing, with search results influenced by popularity and ranking, are only able to capture approximately five percent of the internet. The goal of Memex is to build a better map of more internet content.”
The search engine’s main goal is to have a one-size-fits all approach to search results. The data will not only be pulled from the same places commercial search engines crawl, but also the dark Web hidden sites that include TOR network’s Hidden Services. The Memex team also want to automate methods to analyze the data to save law enforcement research time.
Memex is only a tool for uncovering the dark Web, how it is used depends on the organization. It is estimated Memex will cost between $10-20 million to fund.
Whitney Grace, February 27, 2015
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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