The vast repository of information that search engines and directories don't have direct access to, like databases. Unlike pages on the visible Web (that is, the Web that you can access from search engines and directories), information in databases is generally inaccessible to the software spiders and crawlers that create search engine indexes. E.g. University library sites that require passwords to access their information will not be included in search engine results, as well as script-based pages that are not easily read by search engine spiders. Full text articles and Journals may also be on the Web, but unavailable without subscription. Some places to search the Invisible Web: invisible-web.net About.com Web Lens
Part of the Web that spiders cannot or will not index that is invisible to users using search engines to locate information. Some sites are intentionally blocked for privacy, others have structural challenges that discourage spiders. Causes for having the invisible web problem can be dynamic content, or dynamic URLs that many content management systems and eCommerce packages use. Enclick provides search engine friendly solution to the invisible web problem.
The group of dynamic or large database websites that Search Engines do not index.
Hidden from the view of search robots but all too often also from that of subject directories, is the information stored in the many thousands of databases to be found on the Web. The amount of this hidden information is only expected to increase since technical progress is now making it possible to offer information by means of databases instead of via static Web pages.
part of the World Wide Web that general search engines that, due to technical limitations or deliberate choice, cannot access.
Web Pages that are not reachable by search engines.
The portion of the Web that is hidden from search engines, which require a subscription or password to access. The SBU Libraries' databases are an example of the invisible Web.
A popular collective name for documents of types that search engines do not typically index . Because they are not in any search engine database , they can be very difficult to find and are in a sense invisible. Recently a couple of specialized search engines have begun an attempt to make the invisible web more accessible.
the portion of the Web not accessible through Web search engines.
The invisible web (or deep web or hidden web) is the name given to pages on the World Wide Web that are not indexed by search engines. It consists of pages which are not linked to by other pages, such as password-protected content on the Web available only to members and subscribers.
Web sites or pages that search engine spiders cannot or will not crawl because the content is locked up in a database.
Traditionally refers to the information available through gateways or search interfaces that is not accessible by the search engines' robots. It is a huge part of the Internet content, including library catalogues, bibliographic and alphanumeric databases or even some repositories of documents. During last years some engines, specially Google, has made a great effort to index these records and in fact several databases are more or less covered in their systems (i.e. PubMed is partially indexed by Google). Our ranking do not consider the Invisible or Deep Web and we encourage transforming it in crawler friendly information.
A term that refers to the vast amount of information on the web that is not indexed by the search engines. Coined in 1994 by Dr. Jill Ellsworth. See also: Noframes Tag, Spider Trap, Stop Character