<A HREF=”http://searchthehiddenweb.com” TARGET=”_self”>The “hidden web” contains the fastest growing storehouse of information on the Internet</A>. Think you’re getting everything you need when you search Google? We hear how massive it is but it is only about 1/10th of the full amount of data available, for free, on the Internet.
Google and Yahoo, so-called “surface web” engines, are big, yes, but their indexing software (called crawlers, spiders, bots, etc.) is unable to access the vast majority of websites and databases.
Some examples of pages these spiders can’t reach are: databases, dynamically created pages (using Java or other software), newspaper archives, any site that requires a login, certain file formats that are not index-friendly, and so on.
You may have heard of the “deep web” or the “hidden web” – these are the names given to the 99% of information that is available on the Internet but not easily found using the major search engines. It has by far the greatest amount of best quality information available.
And guess what? Luckily for the smart researcher, marketer, or product developer, nearly 95% of this content is accessible by the public, for free!
There is an amazing wealth of ideas here, for new hot products, for high-quality market research and analyses by academic experts, massive stores of government information, both national and international, and tools for finding detailed information on competitors – both their businesses and their personal information, scary as that may sound. And that’s just the beginning; there are materials available to the public for the taking, in the public domain, which you can use to create new and valuable content for your customers.
If you have an ounce of creativity, just try scanning these sources for one of your market niches, and you will begin to see the possibilities immediately. It’s an instant brainstorm!
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