Sunday, March 8, 2009

A Deeper Peep into Search

Search engine Deep Peep (http://www.deeppeep.org) is one of the few search engines purporting to provide results from the deep web, which is a term associated with providing access to information contained behind passwords and user names. They describe themselves on the site:

"DeepPeep is a search engine specialized in Web forms. The current beta version tracks 13,000 forms across 7 domains. DeepPeep helps you discover the entry points to content in Deep Web (aka Hidden Web) sites, including online databases and Web services. This search engine is designed to cater to the needs of casual Web users in search of online databases (e.g., to search for forms related to used cars), as well as expert users whose goal is to build applications that access hidden-Web information (e.g., to obtain forms in job domain that contain salary, or discover common attribute names in a domain). The development of DeepPeep has been funded by National Science Foundation award #0713637 III-COR: Discovering and Organizing Hidden-Web Sources."

I haven’t seen much out of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on indexing content in the hidden web. Deep web search is difficult to implement because of the human element required in accessing and manipulating the content on the sites.

2 comments:

  1. Hi there,

    There are plenty of Deep Web search engines out there. I work with Deep Web Technologies, a company that has created advanced search engines since 2002. Some of our engines include Science.gov, Mednar.com and Biznar.com. Most of our search engines are geared toward specific industry professionals (business, science, medical), rather than consumers.

    I agree with you, though, that implementing a Deep Web search is more challenging because of the connection factor. We build specialty connectors to each source we search, so a query is done in real-time rather than indexed. It also allows us to take full advantage of any fields that the native source has.

    Please check us out online for more information:
    http://www.deepwebtech.com/tryitnow.html

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