*AKA* –>
“the visible web”
“clearnet”
“lightnet”
“the indexed web“
“the indexable web”
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*the surface web is that portion of the ‘world wide web’ that is readily available to the ‘general public’ + searchable with standard ‘web search engines’*
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(it is the opposite of the “deep web”)
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(according to one source, as of ’14 june 2015′, google’s index of the ‘surface web’ contains about 14.5 billion pages)
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