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[|The Invisible Web]

"The Web," according to Chris Sherman, Internet search expert and Associate Editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, "is increasingly moving away from being a collection of documents and becoming a multidimensional repository for sounds, images, audio, and other formats." Because much of this information is not accessible to many general search engines' software spiders, we need to look for specific search tools that will lead us to this hidden content. Some of these tools include //directories//, //searchable sites//, //free Web databases//, and a //few general and many specialized search engines//.

Robert Lakie provides a pretty good page on "invisible" sites.

Also, you should have some criteria for assessing if a site is reliable or not. The ALA [|(American Library Association)]) has put together some of the questions you should asking yourself to assess your site. As stated at this link: "Every site does not need to meet every one of these criteria to be a great site, but the more of them a site does meet, the more likely it is to be a worthwhile place to spend time."