A search engine sends out agents (a.k.a.spiders, robots, crawlers) to surf the Internet and bring back what they find and deposit that information in the search engine's databases. Much of how you structure your Web site will be to befriend these...
This is apropos, considering Microsoft just bought Fast Search, a specialist in "search technology used inside companies and government agencies to cull for information in documents, databases, and software applications.
I speak a lot about specialty databases that are not from Ask; and I am free to talk about that. Eric Enge: So, using the expertise you have in all these databases, Ask can provide superior Smart Answers.
The invisible web comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines simply are not able to index. But the invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web.
ISEN, L.L.C.has developed an internet search environment number for internet databases to expand search to deep content, rarely indexed by web-based search engines. The ISEN system is a portal that comprehensively catalogs the Internet's databases...
Although the search engines have become fairly proficient at creating comprehensive indexes of the surface web, they're still missing massive amounts of content located in databases or other dynamic sources (the Invisible web)—not to mention web...
For a long time I've said verticals will continue to grow in popularity and importance as meta search tools which are getting better all of the time will allow various database and content publishers to offer material (free or fee) to end users...
For those not familiar with databases, let me step it down to the spreadsheet/table level: This is a real advancement, and it's one I hope we'll see improve in two ways -- the ability to have private databases and named databases.
On a related note, in Chris "SearchDay" Sherman's new book Google Power, Sherman tells the story of a conversation he had with Craig Silverstein, Google's CTO, where Silverstein estimated it would take Google 50 years to completely crack the...
Lindt they could look many other places besides Google like invisible or deep web databases. Lots of public record databases remain on the deep web. Plus, trying to keep material only out of Google (I see lots of these stories) does not keep it out...
Automating the Mining of the Deep Web on new technology in development to get inside databases that crawlers typically don't reach, to make the "deep web" or "invisible web" more visible. on ways to check the weather and weather databases.
Mike Bazeley's article: Diving deep into the Web, profiles a Bay Area start-up named Glenbrook Networks that is developing technology to crawl material that's hidden in deep/invisible web databases. Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog...
Mike Bazeley's article: Diving deep into the Web, profiles a Bay Area start-up named Glenbrook Networks that is developing technology to crawl material that's hidden in deep/invisible web databases. It's worth noting that although Indeed.com and...
Don't forget that very often a smaller, focused web databases are also very capable of providing excellent results. Maybe the Invisible or Deep Web in 2005 is everything beyond the first 10 results? The number Yahoo is announcing is 20 billion "web...
As Battelle correctly points out and I agree with 100 percent with, the personal info in the article is available either in Google's own database or legally, in specialized (Invisible Web and proprietary) databases.
These databases have content typically "invisible" to web crawlers. Postscript 2 (from Gary): In the post I mentioned that libraries offer free access to lots of databases from many providers. As I've noted before, to some degree anything not on...
I often wonder if making large web engines larger with more content will make everything easier versus keeping things in small, focused databases and using meta/federated search technologies to (if needed) search disparate databases simultaneously...
The "invisible" or "deep" web refers to content locked behind databases or other systems that search engines haven't extracted. It has been ages since I've seen anyone try to estimate the size of the web.
Online databases--Directories. For example, the book I co-authored with Chris titled, The Invisible Web is assigned the following headings from one library: I also posted a few thoughts on John's blog in February.
Turbo10 http://turbo10.com Turbo10 is a metasearch Engine accesses both traditional web search engines and some invisible web databases, with a very speedy interface. Clusty allows you to use Vivisimo's dynamic clustering technology on ten...
