What do you do on the Web?
- What sites do you visit?
- What do you do on each site? (e.g., watch movies, talk to friends)
- How long do you stay on each site?
- Do you read each site, or skim? Look at the pictures? Read only new stuff?
Have you heard of the Open Web?
- This is what's free on the Web
- Also, what Google and other search engines can "crawl" (recognize, index, and display)
Have you heard of the Hidden or Deep Web?
- These are sites or collections of information that can't be crawled by Google
- Often, these are sites that need to be paid for, logged into, or accessed in a special way
- Your tech fee money pays for 130 Deep Web sites that are vital to your research. These are called databases.
