USEFUL LINKS:
"These are a Few of My Favourite Things"

by Gordon Laird

These are some of the important areas of the Internet and other information which you might find useful:

"The Deep Web" - information which is beyond the Search Engines:

[The item on The Deep Web added November 22, 2004 - gl]

Explanation, November 23, 2004, by GL:

I became interested in the topic of the Deep Web by two news items: that Google was going to go into the Knowledge business and that there was an Enclycopedia call "Wikipedia", a free encyclopedia in which participants, anybody, is free to alter any entry!

Somewhere along the line I encountered the phrase Deep Web. That led me to the White paper by Michael K Bergman on BrightPlanet and then I became more intriqued.

Immediately I was challenged by the new, for me, accumulative measure term: terabyte. a terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes. I thought a gigabyte was big! [My first computer had two floppy disks of 256K each and had an internal memory of 64 K!!!]

One way of seeing how big that is:

The largest library in the world, the U. S. Library of Congress, contains about 20 terabytes of text. The "Surface Web" is that which is searchably with search engines and contains about the same 20 terabytes.

The 60 known largest Deep-Web sites contain about 750 terabytes of information or about 40 times the size of the known "Surface Web".

Those figures impress me!

Gordon Laird

Biographies of Interesting People, with online references: