Sofia on Nostr: there is nothing stopping hidden services from being crawled by search engines ...

there is nothing stopping hidden services from being crawled by search engines anyway* lol, most of them just don't because that would require routing their own outgoing traffic through tor and that would be architecturally annoying

*unless they use restricted discovery, which requires clients to have a key to connect to them, but most don't

and "dark web/net" are similarly silly because there's just nothing dark about it lol

and having a separate term at all is fundamentally silly, you don't call websites that use http/1.1 something different from websites that use http/2, they're just websites, hidden services are similarly just a slightly unusual way to set up a tcp connection