Meanings
deep web1
- 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.
2008, Patrice McDermott, Who Needs to Know?, →ISBN2 more examples
The classification of such web databases according to their application domain is an important step towards the integration of deep web sources.
2013 July 1, Heidy M. Marin-Castro with Victor J. Sosa-Sosa, Ivan Lopez-Arevalo, and Hugo Jair Escalante-Baldera, “Automatic Classification of Web Databases Using Domain-Dictionaries”, in Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference, page 431With 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.
2014 January 1, Guatam Das, “Mining and Analytic of Deep Web Repositories”, in Applied Algorithms, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference, page xviiSynonyms: Invisible Web
Deep Web2
alternative deep Web · alternative deep web · alternative deep-web
- InternetcomputingThe portion of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by conventional search engines.First known use 2001
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 […]
2012, Eduard C. Dragut, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and Integration, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 3Synonyms: Deep Net, Invisible Web, Hidden Web · Antonyms: Surface Web, visible Web, Clear Net, Indexed Web
deep Web3
- alternativeAlternative form of Deep Web.
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe portion of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by conventional search engines.
proper nounThe Dark Web (the part of the Web only accessible via restricted networks).
Origin
Coined by American web scientist Michael K. Bergman in 2001.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 深網 /深网
- 深網 /深网 (Shēnwǎng)portion of the World Wide Web
Finnish syvä verkko
- syvä verkkoportion of the World Wide Web
Korean 딥 웹
- 딥 웹 (Dip wep)portion of the World Wide Web
Portuguese deep web, web profunda
- deep webportion of the World Wide Web
- web profundaportion of the World Wide Web
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