Web Search Engines
Like my fellow classmates, I loved this article. Since it talked about the history of search engines, it really gave me flashbacks. I don’t think most people realize how long search engines have really been around. I remember using search engines as early as the mid-1990’s. I remember using SE’s in the 1990’s such as DogPile, LexusNexus, AltaVista, AskJeeves, and more. But none of those search engines were ever as efficient as Google, hence the reason most of them are out of business while Google is still going strong today. Anyways, this article was a great trip down memory lane and reminded me of my own unique history with web search engines.
The Deep Web and the BrightPlanet Project
Like my fellow classmates, I was also shocked by the statistics presented in this article. The deep web is huge! I can’t believe that it is 400-550 times larger than the surface web. To be honest, I didn’t even know the difference between the Deep Web and the Surface Web before I read this article.
OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
The OAL Protocol for Metadata Harvesting was interesting to learn about. I learned that it is used to collect metadata descriptions of records in an archive. That must be a very tedious task. To think, people actually used to do this task manually!
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