Friday, November 13, 2009
Muddiest Point - 11/17
The winner this week is going to have to be why care about the "Deep Web?" Does it really matter what is contained in the part of the web people rarely use? I mean if there is that much free money floating around that people can do studies about things no one uses, can I get in on any of that action?
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Well people rarely use it because it is inaccessible by normal web crawling methods. People can't use something they don't know about or have easy access to. The whole point of the studies is that the information is quite useful, and only remains unused because the long tail is not easily discovered.
ReplyDeleteI was looking up more information on deep-web because it also went over my head and I found this quote on wikipedia which I thought was interesting.
ReplyDelete"Mike Bergman, credited with coining the phrase,has said that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean; a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed."