Search engines crawl, rank, and return knowledge in the form of
scraps of information millions of times every day. Search
engines are good at what they do, but they aren't especially
great at it. Local information, research documents, mountains of
medical data, and otherwise useful information lies buried
beyond the reach of GoogleBot and other crawlers. The world
anxiously awaits a way to access this information. Or does it?
Much in the same way I'm tired of empty political promises and
outright lies, I grow weary of false search engine promises. The
deep Web? Is any of this information useful? Did the Cuil launch
teach us anything? The "deep Web," or "invisible Web," allegedly
contains countless untold gems of information. Searching the
secret Web, if you please, is more than just a way for crafty
young college students to plagiarize research papers. I recently
had the opportunity to try out DeepDyve.com, a new deep Web
search engine. After uploading my personal information and
confirming my e-mail address,