Internet 102: The Deep Web

Internet 102: The Deep Web
by
Robin Hall


The Deep Web, Hidden Web or Invisible web. Just who hid this information and why? Queries " deep web " , " hidden web " " invisible web " all get you definitions, information and tutorials, so begin there. Click http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html for some very good sourses and tutorials and here for another, http://www.internettutorials.net/deepweb.html .

Keep in mind, much of the information on the Deep Web is from older, outdated articles. Many of the links to deep web searching are long dead.

This topic would have been more timely seven years ago but there is still much to learn and places to seek the sort of information found in the Deep Web: databases, collestions, directories and journal articles, etc. that are not indexed by the major search engines.

Our good friends at http://www.google.com/ have improved their search engine so rapidly that it now digs deeper and deeper. Just stay tuned to Google itself, http://www.google.com/contact/newsletter.html and let them share their new capabilities when they come out. Google is NOT shy about promoting these products either. Its many new facets like http://scholar.google.com/ are slowly prying into the nooks and crannies of many previously hidden resources, databases etc. New journals are being indexed all the time.

Another useful site is, http://www.noodletools.com/index.html It has free and paid parts that access library sources. This link has an excellent listing for digging into your searches in different ways and making the Deep Web shallower, http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html On this page check out http://clusty.com/ for drilling down into a subject and http://www.jux2.com/ to compare the top 10 results of Google, Live Search / MSN and Yahoo.

"Discover over 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines" at http://completeplanet.com/ . This is a directory of databases and links that make the Invisible Web even easier to see.

Today's note will help you dig deeper into the Deep Web than ever before. So, get out your binoculars, microscope and telescope to explore what is underneath, inside and previously much more hidden. Deep Web tools for all.

Keep this in mind. Some of the Deep Web databases do co$t and with good reasons. They are proprietary sites with indexed information and journals that cost a bundle to keep up to date so get out your wallet and maybe your scuba gear too if your needs include what is hidden inside this Web we all use so much.