[PW] ?deep web searching

[andrea herman]

I once used "search inside this book" to find out which edition of a Betty
Crocker cookbook had a particular recipe. I used Google book search to find
an e.e. cummings poem that I couldn't find on Google because I had the line
slightly wrong. I used Wikipedia, then confirmed with Infoplease.com, when I
was searching for the unofficial US Postal Service motto recently, again
because I had incorrect phrasing. I often suggest Librarian's Index to the
Internet when patrons are having trouble finding a reliable web site on a
topic.

--Andrea Herman
 St. Paul Public Library

On 2/23/07, S M Colowick <smc at utilika.org> wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure that Amazon's "search inside the book" feature counts
> as "deep Web." I've used it several times to answer questions for
> patrons, including the time that someone was looking for a short story
> called "Appointment in Baghdad" (by Edith Wharton, I think). It turned
> out that this was actually an excerpt from an essay, which one
> middle-school English textbook was calling a short story and had given
> a title. I found it in a book of the author's essays at Amazon.
>
> Susie
>
> On 2/23/07, Stacey Marien <smarien at american.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > This is not a reference questions per se but my colleague is trying to
> find
> > examples of how searching the "deep" web was successful in helping a
> patron
> > - I suppose the deep web can be defined how ever you want but I thought
> I
> > would ask if anyone had an example.
> >
> > Stacey
> >
> > Stacey Marien
> > Business and Economics Librarian
> > American University Library
> > 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
> > Washington, DC 20016
> > smarien at american.edu
> > (202)885-3842
> > (202)885-1317 - Fax
> > AIM: staceyann370
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