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Re:A social networking site is not an open access repository by mintplant on Thursday December 03, 2015 @05:37AM (#10668887)
Facebook perfectly fits the original definition of the term [1], but unfortunately media confusion has turned it into a synonym for Tor and hidden services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web_%28search%29

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Re:A social networking site is not an open access repository by Shish2k on Thursday December 03, 2015 @07:25AM (#10669210)
Are you not thinking of "dark web"? I see that a lot, but I've not seen "deep web" used by the media at all (though I won't deny that the media misusing technical words is entirely believable...)
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Re:A social networking site is not an open access repository by mintplant on Thursday December 03, 2015 @05:00PM (#10673013)
"Dark Web" is indeed the proper term, but it's been conflated with "Deep Web" in the media. See the section "Terminology conflation" in that Wikipedia article.
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