Research Guides: Freely Available Information: Invisible Web

Why most of the Web (Internet) is "invisible" to Google and any other search engines

10 Reasons Most of the Web is Invisible to Google, Bing, Yahoo! etc.
Question: When you search with Google how much of the Internet are you actually searching?

Answer: Not very much! Why?

Going Beyond Google Again by Jane Devine; Francine Egger-Sider
Call Number: also available in print at UNI Stacks ZA4237 .D43 2014
Publication Date: 2013
Demonstrating why teaching the Invisible Web should be a requirement for information literacy education in the 21st century, here the authors expand on the teaching foundation provided in the first book and persuasively argue that the Invisible Web is still relevant not only to student research but also to everyday life.

Expert Internet Searching by Phil Bradley
Publication Date: 2017
This ambitious book and the accompanying webblog by Phil Bradley were - until 2017 and 2018 respectively - providing some of the more comprehensive reviews of specialized internet search engines. Though now now dated - this book still covers many extant specialized search engines.

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