Invisible web content? Yes it exists!

A great deal of the really good content on the www is contained indatabases, so what, you say. Well, most search engines are unable toaccess these databases in their search process. In other words, thisis data you'll never locate unless you know it's out there and youknow exactly how to access it.As I said in the above paragraph search e-sources for the most partare unable to access information contained in these Web-accessibledatabases. They are however able to access the search e-source orinterface associated with these databases, if you know how to searchfor them that is.Here is an example (a picture is worth a thousand words they say, orshould that be changed in this new millennium to "a screen shot isworth a thousand bits of data")The trick is to search for the specific topic you're interested inwith the Boolean "and" together with the word "database" in yourquery.Searched the web for medicine.Have a look at the results produced using only the word medicine forour search. Results 17,900,000 documents found, but no databases.Now perform that same search using medicine and database.Now we look at the search string "medicine and database. Firstyou'll notice that the search e-source tells us that our "and" isnot necessary (see article "Search with the power of Booleanoperators" in the OU Interactive Library)We have returned 1,390,000 results. (More than 16 million less thanthe above search) Not only have we eliminated many millions ofuseless data references, but we have produced a much narrower searchfield with highly pertinent information to be found in the hundredsof databases we are now able to peruse.This type of searching will produce highly targeted results withouthaving to dig through millions of rag tag commercial sites, messageboards and discussion lists. You'll generally find that theseresults come without all of heavy graphics and hype you'll fine witha wider search method."Your Success Is Our Success" jbp