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Surface web

The surface web (also called the visible web, indexed web, or indexable web) is the portion of the World Wide Web that is readily available to the general public and searchable with standard web search engines.

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Article summary

The surface web (also called the visible web, indexed web, or indexable web) is the portion of the World Wide Web that is readily available to the general public and searchable with standard web search engines.

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Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  3. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

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