Eugine_Nier comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 10 December 2012 05:38:28AM 3 points [-]

Yeah...by "internet" what I meant was sites that most people do not know about - sites that you would only stumble upon in the course of extensive net usage. I once described it to a friend as "deep" vs "shallow" internet, with depth corresponding to the extent to which a typical visitor to the website uses the internet. Even within a website (say reddit) a smaller sub-reddit would be "deeper" than a main one.

By that definition, there are many nearly disconnected "deep internets".

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 10 December 2012 07:08:32AM *  1 point [-]

Yes...i'm confused. Is this supposed to be a flaw in the definition? The idea here is to use relative obscurity to describe the degree to which a site is visited only by Internet users who do heavy exploring. There are only a few "shallow" regions... Facebook, Wikipedia, twitter...the shallowest being google. These are all high traffic and even people who never use computers have heard some of these words. There are many deep regions, on the other hand, and most are disconnected.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 11 December 2012 12:48:52AM *  1 point [-]

Yes...i'm confused. Is this supposed to be a flaw in the definition?

It is if you then proceed to claim to have statistics over users of the "deep internet".

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