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April 21, 2008

Google starts in on the invisible web

From an announcement on the Google Webmaster blog, Google is starting to crawl through HTML forms to get data, which means it is starting (just starting) to harvest some of the wonderful data that is available in database driven applications in what has come to be known as "the invisible web" or "the deep web."  This is a monumental step in my opinion, and means better and more complete search engine results in the future.  The number of comments and trackbacks on Google's post tells me that I'm not the only one who thinks this!

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ISEN has a patent pending on a deep web technology that uses a social network of librarians to effectively catalog databases. ISEN is the Internet Search Environment Number which assigns a unique ID (like ISBN and DNS) with a robust set of MODS (LOC) metadata. Hope you'll look us up!

Best Regards,

-Matt Theobald

Posted by: Matthew Theobald | April21, 2008

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