What is the Invisible Net, Deep Web or Deep Net?

Today’s search engines, like Google are made for regular, everyday answer seekers. If you want to know about boats, whether big or small, they work well.

The Invisible Net (Deep Web or Deep Net) refers to content that is stored in databases accessible on the internet but not through search engines. For one reason or another it cannot be indexed by conventional search engines. The only way to access the information is to search the databases and web services themselves.

Before you try to access information on the Invisible Net, you may want to do a practice run. Various sites collect databases on the Invisible Net. For instance, as a card-carrying library user, I can my online library to access at least a dozen databases that I wouldn’t be able to get without it. I bet your library has much the same. I’ve told you before I ♥ my library.

Internet-research challenged? Many libraries and community colleges have free or inexpensive classes on how to use the Internet. You’ll find one offered by ed2go called “Research for Writers.” It’s excellent.

 

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