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Deep Web

name

Etymology

Coined by American web scientist Michael K. Bergman in 2001.

Definitions

  1. The portion of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by conventional search engines.

    • In contrast, most data in the deep Web are structured data records stored in backend database systems and there are usually no hyperlinks among these data records. Due to the existence of extensive links among Web pages in the surface […]

  2. The Dark Web (the part of the Web only accessible via restricted networks).

  3. Alternative letter-case form of Deep Web.

    • Some of these information resources are “deep web” or “hidden web” assets, not easily accessible from typical Internet search engines.
    • The classification of such web databases according to their application domain is an important step towards the integration of deep web sources.
    • With the proliferation of deep web repositories...hidden behind proprietary web interfaces...efficient ways of exploring contents in such hidden repositories are of increasing importance in a wide variety of applications.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Alternative form of Deep Web.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Deep Web. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA