via reflectionof.me
Another example of very innovative, unusual & wacky art. Make sure you check out all the pictures!
Oh my. This is a bit rubbish.
15 years ago
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Explorations Of The Deep:10 Search Engines to Explore the Deep End of the Invisible Web
via makeuseof.com
The "Invisible Web," that part of the World Wide Web that is not commonly searched by our standard search engines such as Google or Bing is estimated by the Library of Congress to be close to containing 91,000 terabytes. Saikat Basu's article at MakeUseOf.com, quotes a Wikipedia article in which that figure is an increase from close to 3,000 terabytes back in 1997.
When you consider that the 'open' web most people take for granted they have access to is only 167 terabytes, one can finally understand how much of the information and web pages on the Internet are closed to us for most of our searches.
MakeUseOf.com's article tries to help out by shedding the light on some of what they refer to as the Web's "Dark Continent" that Web content unindexed by standard Search Engine Spiders like Google.
They list and describe 10 Search Engines that you may want to try the next time you need to do some deep research that a normal, everyday search just can't seem to dig up.
Here are the 10 resources they recommend getting to know for your research deep diving:
Infomine at http://infomine.ucr.edu/ Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
The WWW Virtual Library at http://vlib.org/ Oldest Catalog on the Web
Intute at http://www.intute.ac.uk/ Esteemed British Resources
Complete Planet at http://aip.completeplanet.com/ Indexes 70,000 Databases
Infoplease (with it's kid spinoff: Factmonster.com) at http://www.infoplease.com/ Info Portal to Encyclopedias, Almanacs, Biographies, Atlases
DeepPeep at http://www.deeppeep.org/ Beta service indexing databases not normally covered by the standard search engine
IncyWincy at http://www.incywincy.com/ Metasearch engine filtering results of the Invisible Web
DeepWebTech at http://www.deepwebtech.com/ Five Deep Search Engines covering Science, Medicine and Business
Scirus at http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ Science Research
TechXtra at http://www.techxtra.ac.uk/index.html Engineering, Math & Computing in Industry
(For more details please see the original Full Article at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-explore-deep-invisible-web/ )
Thursday, March 4, 2010
We're Fouling Our Own Nest In The Atlantic, Too.
Just like the Great Pacific Garbage patch written about earlier on this blog ('The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Must Be Addressed' Jan 31, 2010), the Atlantic Ocean has a newly discovered Plastic filled Gyre of its very own.
"National Geographic News" has published an article about the patch which sits hundreds of miles off the North American Coast. In some places, more than 200,000 bits of trash per square kilometer were found by students in the Sea Education Association Semester Education Program at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
The patch is described as covering a region between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude—roughly the distance from Cuba to Virginia.
See more information about this issue at the "National Geographic's" Daily News website at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbag...
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