Coverless information hiding has become a hot topic because it can hide secret information (SI) into carriers without any modification. Aiming at the problems of the low hiding capacity (HC) and mismatch in text big data, a novel method of coverless information hiding by retrieving the massive amount of web text on the Internet. First, the proposed method uses a web spider technology to capture web texts associated with SI to construct a web-text library. Second, some texts containing SI are searched and the optimal web text is selected from them. Then, the location of the SI in the selected w...