[LM_NET] GEN: "new search technologies mine the web more deeply" article about the Deep Web

[Rena Deutsch <rdlibnyc@GMAIL.COM>]

Interesting article in the Business section of the NY Times yesterday

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/technology/internet/23search.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=deep%20web&st=cse

"One day last summer,
Google<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org>’s
search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth
address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as
that number may seem, it represents only a fraction of the entire Web.
Beyond those trillion pages lies an even vaster Web of hidden data:
financial information, shopping catalogs, flight schedules, medical research
and all kinds of other material stored in databases that remain largely
invisible to search engines....."

-- 
Rena Deutsch, Librarian
Seward Park Campus Schools
350 Grand St.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 475-4148 x435
rdlibnyc@gmail.com

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