Assigned Reading 10 The Deep Web

This is a long article that states that there is more information to be found on the web.  This information is buried and most standard search engines don't find it.

The deep web consists of:

• increased amounts of public information
• is the largest growing category of new information
• tends to be narrower and deeper content
• highly relevant to every information need, market and domain
• more than 1/2 content is topic specific

The deep web appears to be the fastest growing component of the web and 95% of the information is publicly available.

The most important point is that is it massive and meaningful content that can't be discovered with conventional search technology and the lack of awareness that the content exists.

Surface web is discoverable by search engines through crawling.  

Deep web content is presented in response to a direct request.