Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 4

Deep Web: Librarian's Perspective

Librarian, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad-500016, Telangana, India, Email id: mrmp2k8@yahoo.com

Online published on 16 December, 2017.

Abstract

This paper describes about World Wide Web with differentiation to the Deep Web, which is having more than 80% of information on web. This portion of web is not indexed by standard search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and so on. It is an advantage for librarians to sustain in their profession. The author also mentioned tools and search engines to access Deep Web in this paper

Keywords

Deep Web, Librarian, Information literacy, Information search strategies, World Wide Web, Surface web, Dark web