Stanford and Deep Web Technologies Partner on Federated Search

Technology will reduce search time for faculty and students, improve results

SANTA FE, N.M., April 16, 2008 — Stanford University Libraries has selected Deep Web Technologies to create a federated search solution that will simplify access to the Libraries’ vast online resources and create a new access point for the university’s own digitized content. Federated search is a technology that allows multiple information sources - including deep web databases - to be searched simultaneously, so users can scan the breadth of library collections in a single query. Stanford has three demonstrations of the Deep Web Technologies’ solution in place so that faculty and students can test them and provide feedback.

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Stanford University Libraries Launches Federated Search

Press Release

March 27, 2008

If you think everything you’re looking for can be found through Internet search engines, think again. The “crawl” technology of search engines like Google identifies and indexes only a fraction of all the information that is available on the Web. The “invisible web” is made up of thousands of databases and searchable sources that contain highly targeted and valuable information, and whose content is inaccessible and therefore neither seen nor indexed by traditional search engines.

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