URI: <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2008009697#concept>

Type: Topical Term

Alternate Labels: Deep Web; Deepnet; Hidden Web

Broader Terms:

• World Wide Web

Sources:

• Work cat.: 2008050850: Devine, Jane. Going beyond Google, c2009: ECIP t.p. (Invisible Web) galley (term used to describe all the information available on the World Wide Web that cannot be found by using general-purpose search engines; phrase coined by Dr. Jill Ellsworth in 1994; in 2003, the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, published a document titled "How Much Information 2003" in which the size of the 2002 Internet, given in terabytes, included the "Surface Web" (167 terabytes), the "Deep Web" (91,850), "E-mail (originals)" (440,606) and "Instant messaging" (274))
• Wikipedia, Dec. 11, 2008 (deep Web; also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, or the hidden Web; also called Deepnet, the invisible Web, or the hidden Web; refers to World Wide Web content that is not part of the surface Web, which is indexed by search engines; estimated that the deep Web is several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web)

LC Classification: ZA4237

Created: 2009-01-08

Last Modified: 2009-01-08 14:09:06



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