Searching the 'Deep Web'

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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With the 10% that is crawled

[Trigun]

being pretty much total crap, I'd really hate to see the other 90%!

Oh yeah, a whole new pair of dimes

[stienman]

Will access to this new level of specific information change how we deal with companies, governments and private insitutions?"

Yeah. It means I'll be able to use someone else's credit card for more of my transactions, since finding credit cards, SSNs and other...uh...'deep web' stuff will be so much more accessable.

-Adam

Deep web?

[hookedup]

Doesnt crap sink? Not sure I want to know what the other 90-odd percent is. After tubgirl, goatse, etc.. what else could possibly be next..

deep web?

[rjelks]

Is it just me, or does this sound like we're gonna get more pr0n when we search?

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Insight on the "deep web"

[saddino]

99% of the "deep web" probably looks like this. Indexable? Sure. Necessary? No.