Searching the 'Deep Web'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 9, 2004 @01:50AM from the sounds-more-like-the-deep-hurting dept.

abysmilliard writes "Salon is running a story on next-generation web crawling technologies, specifically Yahoo's new paid "Content Acquisition Program." The article alleges that current search services like Google manage to access less than 1% of the web, and that the new services will be able to trawl the "deep web," or the 90-odd percent of web databases, forms and content that we don't see. Will access to this new level of specific information change how we deal with companies, governments and private insitutions?"

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IPO Baby by glenrm · 2004-03-09 02:26 · Score: 0, Flamebait

So Yahoo is paying Salon to make sure everybody knows they are still in the search biz and don't you forget it... Sure that little search company Google is IPO'ing soon and everybody from Mamma to Ask Jeeves is having their stocks party like it is 1999, but don't you forget about good old Yahoo, I mean we have the deep web tech...

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