web characterization program - from CNI

[GraceAnne A. DeCandido]

I am forwarding these two URLs about the size of the web 
and the deep web from the CNI list, fyi. Both articles are 
fascinating even in summary form.
GraceAnne DeCandido

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Date sent:      	Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:57:02 -0700
From:           	Clifford Lynch <cliff at cni.org>
To:             	Multiple recipients of list <cni-announce at cni.org>
Subject:        	OCLC web characterization program latest

The latest results from the OCLC Office of Research Web
Characterization project have just been released.
Interesting data. You can find a summary at:

http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/20001016a.htm

For those interested in web characterization, there is also
an interesting report on what they call "the deep web" (ie
databases etc which are accessible via web interfaces;
others call this "dark matter" or "the invisible web") which
was released in July by a company called BrightPlanet. If
you haven't seen this it's at

http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.a
sp


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI