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The Deep Web

Finding Information in the Deep Web

Most of the deep web is made up of information found in specialized databases. Each of these databases can be searched, much like searching Google, but the results are often delivered to you in web pages that are made just in answer to your search. These pages are not stored anywhere, rather they are created "on the fly." It is easier and cheaper for these databases to spontaneously generate the answer page for each search than to store all the possible pages containing all the possible answers to all the possible searches people could make to the database. Search engines cannot find or create these pages.

The trick is knowing where to go to search for this information in the deep web. A list of places to find information from the deep web can be found at the LSU Libraries, Internet Searching - Deep Web Search Engines page.

For example, go to the Complete Planet website (www.completeplanet.com), a deep web directory. Click on the link that says "Music," and you'll a list of databases where you can search for deep web information dealing with music. You can narrow your results even further by only choosing one of the subtopics, such as "lyrics." One of the sites listed is "Lyrics Robot" (www.lyricsrobot.com), a lyrics specialty search engine which will give you a more complete results list than a Google search.

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