Muddiest Point #9

So, for the deep web, you can search a deep website like amazon or ebay via their search engines, but you could also use google, right?  So what's the difference?  

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Week Ten Readings

The first article makes me wonder if there's something like a Moore's Law of indexing and searching the web. We've certainly come a long way. One thing missing from this 2-parter is the battle between Google and web pages that try to use Google's indexing/searching algorithm to gain in the rankings. Then again, as I tell my students, popularity should not be confused for accuracy.

OAI stands for Open Archives Initiative, and aggregates metadata that is voluntarily provided by either service or data providers and repositories. Why do it? To provide access to a group of resources in a single location (and then of course to aggregate those resources somewhere).

The deep web is a term I've never heard used before, and given how dated this article is (two weeks of data in March of 2000 and I'm reading it in 2008?), I'm not surprised. What constitutes a deep website? I'm still not sure after reading the article. Is it a function of a website having limited points of entry, so that what appears narrow at the surface goes down to the proverbial ocean floor? Seems like that to me. Regardless, a Google search in 2008 will certainly bring up multiple sites within Amazon.com, eBay, NOAA...

Oh, and here's what OAI can do for you: http://www.oaister.org/