Sunday, June 19, 2005

Real Tech News - Independent Tech | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the “Deep Web”

Found this via Fark. Be sure to read the entire article. Us librarians know all there is to know about the deep web--not to be confused with that deep fellow in the news. The realtechnews site is very handy if you don't know the first thing about your library's databases. ;-)

Real Tech News - Independent Tech | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the “Deep Web”: "What is the Deep Web?
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.

When we refer to the deep Web, we are usually talking about the following:"

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