Thursday, November 27, 2008
For this week's lesson, i realized that the deep web, also known as the invisible web, is practically useless. None of the websites returned favourable results that were beneficial to my research topic. I conducted several searches on various deep webs and not one of them yielded any useful search results.
Here is a screenshot of an invisible web (Academic Gateway)
Figure 1
I feel that the deep web search is for heavily object-targeted searches. Examples of that would be searching for a specific book from a library using the online search tool by knowing and entering the book title, the author or the publisher; searching from educational institions' invisible web for articles and related publications.
All in all, I find that the usefulness-rating of the deep web is extremely low and would discourage friends from using that as a search tool for very obvious reasons.
ITS ME .