That's the deep web, not the dark web. And yes, I agree with Derek that it's a bad name, partially because people confuse it with the deep web all the time.

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What's the difference here? I would assume they're the same, just different words being used to describe the same thing?

Dark web is tor/i2p et al (usually just referring to tor hidden services). Deep web is the segment of the normal WWW not indexed by search engines - internal company stuff behind logins, cloud storage, private forums etc.

That said, yeah, the two are mixed up and used interchangeably all the time. But they are separate concepts.

I've never heard of an intranet being referred to as the deep web. That seems odd.

afaik, "deep web" is used for all the http traffic that is not web browsing such as all http API and the such