The reading on “the Deep Web” as a very interesting
presentation; while I think I understand the basic premise, the question for me
is that should these “deep web” assets become widely available will they be
more confusing to a standard patron/user and further add to congestion of web
traffic?
Each site that is developed is developed with some sort of
biased perspective and created with the intent to be available to the person or
persons who wish to access it. However,
the delay on more recent information being posted is not much different from the
history of accessing print records. It
seems that we are making the same mistakes in different ways to convey
information with less of a delay, but with similar inaccuracies. Information
today already comes at us so quickly that even the greatest minds do not have
the capacity to absorb or review it all. Some of the major search engines have
already begun to employ techniques to aid in more efficient retrieval methods. Most
of us, even those of us in the information business, won’t even see the “magic”
that makes it all happen. How do we make these tools relevant beyond academics
in a more practical way?
