[Web4lib] RE: Web4lib Digest, Vol 35, Issue 21

[Gilbert Bede]

Some information on the Deep Web vs. Surface Web can be found in

Title: Web dragons : inside the myths of search engine technology / Ian
H. Witten, Marco Gori, Teresa Numerico. 
Variant Title: Inside the myths of search engine technology 
Primary Material: Book 
Subject(s): Search engines. 
 World Wide Web. 
 Electronic information resource literacy. 
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Morgan Kaufmann, c2007. 
Description: xxi, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
Series: Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia and information systems 
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-249) and indexes.

One of the sources that they quote is a commercial site called
BrightPlanet, that has a "white paper" posted at

http://www.brightplanet.com/resources/details/deepweb.html

for more current information there is also a blog on the subject
http://deepwebresearch.blogspot.com/ run by Marcus Zillman.  Zillim
recent published an article in LLRX (Law and Technology Resources for
Legal Professionals) it can be found at
http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2008.htm it provides what appears to
be a fairly comprehensive bibliography on the subeject. 

Gilbert Bede
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