10 October 2005

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed

"The Web," according to Chris Sherman, Internet search expert and Associate Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, "is increasingly moving away from being a collection of documents and becoming a multidimensional repository for sounds, images, audio, and other formats." Because much of this information is not accessible to many general search engines' software spiders, we need to look for specific search tools that will lead us to this hidden content. Some of these tools include directories, searchable sites, free Web databases, and a few general and many specialized search engines...
Cool article regarding searching for content in the net. It's true that we are so dependent on search engines that we forget that there are other means.