Bleeding Edge is on Amazon

[Prashant Kumar]

I can't claim as much.

Question for all: why do you think this is a detective tale? I mean, I get
there're precursors - Basnight, Sportello, recently - but why?

I cant help but think of Poe's remarks regarding his Dupin stories - that
there is nothing particularly wonderful about unravelling a web

On Tuesday, April 2, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> 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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