[tor-talk] Academic work about Deep Web

[Peter Tonoli]

Hi!

On 12/3/13, 2:24 AM, Yoni Golden wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm a student in Haifa University at the Information & Knowledge Management Department and I'm writing a paper about the deep web.
> One of the most important projects regarding the deep web is the Tor Project, which give access to some of the websites, including the .onion sites.
>
> I tried to look for hidden content with the Tor Browser, and most of the .onion websites were dealing with "controversial" activity.
> I wanted to ask if you know of commercial companies who have .onion web sites? and if .onion websites being built also for "positive" and "legitimate" purposes?

Yes. DuckDuckGo has a hidden service at <http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion>.
The new Yorker's strongbox lives at <http://tnysbtbxsf356hiy.onion>.
Indymedia did/does run a hidden node too.

You might want to look at the paper "Content and popularity analysis of 
Tor hidden services" at <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.6768v1.pdf>.

Cheers,
Peter.