This has seriously got me thinking about information retrieval: Beyond Google: The Invisible Web: "# Even the best search engines can access only about 16% of the available information on the World Wide Web. Therefore 84% of the information is excluded. That 84% has become known as the Invisible Web.
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# The Invisible Web is the largest growing category of new information on the Web.
# 95% of the Invisible Web is publicly accessible information.
# More than half of the Invisible Web resides in topic specific databases."
Which means, if we are to find info, particularly more specialist stuff, we're goining to have to 'work smarter'.
One of the pages on this site tells of why so much of the internet is search-engine invisible. This is good for giving us an idea of limitations and so of what to do about them. And then it tells us what we can do to access a wider fund of information -probably worth bookmarking.
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