Bleeding Edge is on Amazon

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Apr 1 22:48:01 CDT 2013


Mr. K,
Your description of "deep web" is much more intriguing than the online
synopsis of Bleeding Edge.

On Monday, April 1, 2013, Prashant Kumar wrote:

> Deep web is an interesting one. In modern usage it means websites not
> indexed by google - most of the Internet. In 2005 (don't have 2001 or
> current data in memory) the "web" was about 1 petabyte; the deep web maybe
> two orders of magnitude larger. In 2001 it was 7.5 petabytes.
>
> In modern times it has become notorious for supposedly playing host to
> everything from child pornography to seizure inducing websites laced with
> kitten pictures, but the connotations such lends are of recent vintage as
> far as I'm aware. "Deep web" itself was coined in a 2001 study.
>
> A place for hiding things, and for losing things; a variegated warren.
> A W.A.S.T.E. wrought from electrons? Anyway, I'm excited. The blurb for AtD
> sucked just as much as this one does.
>
> P.
>
> On Tuesday, April 2, 2013, Rich Clavey wrote:
>
>> --- On Mon, 4/1/13, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> And, like the Deep Web---love that concept meme--like Deep Germany and
>> deep themes, we have karmic (and secular) balance questions as part of
>> theme.
>>
>>  I had never heard this term before. At first I thought it was a reference
>>  to the darknet. But it's not. Could be very cool.
>>  Rich
>>
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web
>>
>>
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