The Surface Web (also called the Visible Web, Indexed Web, Indexable Web or Lightnet) is the portion of the

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web ...

that is readily available to the general public and searchable with standard

web search engine A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...

s. It is the opposite of the deep web, the part of the web not indexed by a

. The Surface Web only consists of 10 percent of the information that is on the internet. The Surface Web is made with a collection of public Web pages on a server accessible by any search engine. According to one source, , Google's Index of the Surface Web Contains about 14.8 billion pages.

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