Yahoo tests “deep web” search

gsandler writes “Here is a ZDNet
story about how Yahoo plans to add federated
search capabilities to its search engine. "Yahoo began testing a service late Wednesday that allows people to perform simultaneous searches for information contained within subscription-based Web sites.
While most search engines crawl the Web and troll freely accessible sites, they cannot get into much of the so-called deep Web, vast amounts of data stored within paid and password-protected sites. Yahoo Search Subscriptions will allow search access to seven different subscription Web sites simultaneously, including the
Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal
Online.”

June 16, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. teaperson says:
    June 16, 2005 at 11:55 pm

    Where to find it
    It’s at http://search.yahoo.com/subscriptions if you want to check it out.

    The current sources are the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, TheStreet.com, Consumer Reports, Forrester Research, IEEE Publications, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

    This seems like a product that might actually be a help to public libraries, if it successfully exposes content that individuals aren’t going to have their own subscriptions to. Although I’m not sure.

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