The Deep Web

I recently had to look up a site contained in the "deep web." The "deep web" is a term assigned to the sites that aren't the most common on search engines or contain very specific information about a certain topic that just isn't broad enough for the search engine's spider programs to pick up. I came across an interesting site called Itzalist.com. This site has a lot of things it can help you with but I focused on the travel tab and found a giant, alphabetically organized list of websites that offer tours or trips for certain places. It's very unorganized and almost unsearchable as everything is clumped together in such a difficult fashion to read.

The site has no real style or substance it's just a black background with a few itzalist tags on the sides. The text is either white or turquoise and is somewhat easy to read against the black background. You can already tell by the URL that it's not exactly a commercial site and from the way it's made and maintained you can tell it's done by an individual as more of a hobby than anything else as it's, like I said, unorganized and very plain. The page is not dated so I have no idea how old the information is or if any of the links work. From the way the site looks, I'd be hard-pressed to click on any of the links for fear of a virus or spyware.

The site itself has no actual information that's original work. Every bit of information you would receive would come from 3rd party sources outside of the site. However, the site does offer lots of links for information. So it's almost like a middle man between the other sites and you. An attempt at making a travel-specific Google I suppose. I checked some of the links and found a lot of them worked and most of them were actually useful in regards to their topic. All-in-all the site is o.k., but I'm not surprised it doesn't seem to get more activity as it was very hard to find through Google and doesn't appear to bring much to the table.