US’s DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is planning to roll out a new kind of search engine – more powerful than Google – to track down all sorts of illegal activity within the dark web. According to the latest buzz in the online world, DARPA is currently holding a three-year research program, nicknamed “Memex” to develop a special software to index web content.
For the starters, 95% of the web content is not indexed by leading search engines of today such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. DARPA will attempt to uncover the patterns in data, which will help security agencies track down illegal activities on the dark web. The initiative will help solve one of the leading problems facing the society today – human trafficking. Though the technology is currently being directed toward human trafficking, it could easily be replicated in other areas as well as and when the need arises, according to the Darpa officials.
Now what is ‘Dark Web?’ – In layman’s language it comprises those web pages that are not accessible to web crawlers, given that they are too fleeting. In other words, these web pages are not indexed by search engines. Unfortunately, Google by far is able to access only 10% of the web pages and the rest falls under the “dark web” category. While the content is not hidden from the masses; however, it’s not accessible on commercial search engines. DARPA hopes to solve this issue by creating a more automated mechanism which would display all related searches. More important, it will not only help individuals but law enforcement agencies as well.
Additionally, DARPA’s latest initiative will help millions of web pages that are normally ignored by the regular search engines, get indexed.
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