The Energy Secretary directed a panel of the Energy Advisory Board to report on the current situation and make recommendations that would help to ensure this nation s national security and the security of those former Soviet weapons. That report, authored by Howard Baker and Lloyd Cutler, is called A report card on the Department of Energy's Nonproliferation Programs in Russia , and was released January 10, 2001. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Formally called Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the goal of this architecture is to provide an easy way for data providers to expose their metadata and for service providers to access that metadata and use it as input to value-added services. Purportedly, up to 500 billion pieces of content are hidden from the ordinary search engines we are using such as Google, Northern Light and Yahoo.
All signs point to the deep Web as the dominant paradigm for the next generation of the Internet.
A new breed of engine is emerging that drills down into this area, usually focusing on a specific subject. Visiting this site can provide you with a flavor for using a deep Web search engine. A young company known as BrightPlanet is studying the deep Web and developing search tools to access this information. They say the deep Web contains 7,500 terabytes of information compared to 19 terabytes in the surface Web. If you want to experiment with a trial search engine, the BrightPlanet site has further information.