We collect and analyze the darkweb (a.k.a. the "onionweb") hyperlink graph. We find properties highly dissimilar to the well-studied world wide web hyperlink graph; for example, our analysis finds that >87% of darkweb sites never link to another site. We compare our results to prior work on world-wide-web and speculate about reasons for their differences. We conclude that in the term "darkweb", the word "web" is a connectivity misnomer. Instead, it is more accurate to view the darkweb as a set of largely isolated dark silos.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1704.07525,
title = {Graph Theoretic Properties of the Darkweb},
author = {Virgil Griffith and Yang Xu and Carlo Ratti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07525},
year = {2017}
}