
| The deep Web (or Deepnet, invisible Web or hidden Web) refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the surface Web indexed by search engines. Contains links to resources that provide acces to the part of the Internet that encompasses vast and diverse content including commercial subscription databases, content buried within publicly available websites, and internally-generated documents scattered throughout an organization. The deep Web has gotten a lot of press in recent years. The Web is becoming a complex entity that contains information from a variety of source types. It is much more than fixed Web pages. In fact, the part of the Web that is not fixed, and is served dynamically "on the fly," is far larger than the fixed documents that many associate with the Web. Some people incorrectly refer to this content as the "invisible Web," for reasons that will be explained below. www.internettut... et/deepweb.html ~ Read more...
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The 'Deep' Web: Surfacing Hidden Value This modified version of "The deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value" appeared in The Journal of Electronic Publishing from the University of Michigan (http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html), July 2001. Abstract. Searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean. While a great deal may be caught in the net, there is still a wealth of information that is deep, and therefore, missed. The reason is simple: Most of the Web's information is... www.brightplane... ls/deepweb.html ~ Read more...
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