SEL: Connotate's Deep Web Agents Go Where Google Doesn't

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June 06, 2005

Connotate's Deep Web Agents Go Where Google Doesn't

USA Today has a story on Connotate Technologies, a NJ company that has developed a data mining "search engine" that can extract data from the Deep Web.

Through the use of intelligence-based software modules called information agents, corporate and government organizations can quickly and easily target specific unstructured data from intranets and password-protected Web sites on a continual basis.

Their technology allows them to get to data that most search engine spiders cannot reach.

Whatever an individual can do in terms of accessing a site, Deep Web navigation, filling out forms, an agent can do that," he said. "If you have a subscription and password to the site, then the agent can have access. If you don't have a password, that site would be closed."

Still, privacy advocates need not worry (yet). The technology is aimed at coporate intranets and cannot access the secure information unless you give them the usernames etc. That being said, the technology has gotten the attention of the search engines, including Ask Jeeves.

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