Can Goggle, Yahoo!, MSN, Bing and others find Deep Data on the web?
Surface search results are based on “relevancy by popularity”, ranked by total “hits” by users’ simple search queries. While search engines can “find” deep data, their coverage is often sporadic and intermixed with less relevant (and too much) content. To find exactly the content needed, a user must traverse through “all” content within each surface site (Google, MSN, etc.). Further, for a researcher to find Deep Data using Surface Search Engines, they must rely on their own content expertise and personal ability to navigate the web “one click at a time”, (link traversal) – a time-consuming process which has become normal behavior when using standard search engines.
