Searching the Hidden Web

Edéné Rutkovszky

University of Debrecen, Faculty of Sciences

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics

Department of Information Technology

kata@delfin.klte.hu

Ádám Rutkovszky

University of Debrecen, Faculty of Economics

Department of Economics

rutkova@wall.econ.klte.hu

Abstract

The web recently is growing in a never experienced pace, and this process is getting faster and faster. Vast amount of information can be accessed on the net. Information needed can be retrieved from this huge volume by the following two strategies: using services of dictionaries or search engines. Most of search engines deals with only the surface of information of the Web, not taking into account dynamic pages provided by databases. This part of the Web - called the Invisible Web - may contain 500 times more pages than the visible web.

In our talk we present problems of searching the Invisible Web and give some possible solutions.