Week 11 Readings & Muddiest Point

Reading Notes:

Web Search Engines, Part 1 & 2:
These articles look at Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft and how they provide
high quality answers to queries by crawling through the Web. It also
discussed indexing algorithms and techniques that could be used to speed up
searching.

Current Development OAI-PMH:
This explored how the Open Archives Initative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting is being used by various communities to find metadata relative
their specific needs. This was a lot of information to take in, but it's
good to know that this protocol has far exceeded its initial goals.

The Deep Web:
This discussed how most of the Web is buried, and the traditional search
engines aren't capable of retrieving content from the Deep Web. The only way
to get results from the Deep Web is to do a direct request with is a
laborious way of searching. What was most interesting to me was that
awareness of this content existing is nearly non-existent. I personally had
never heard of the Deep Web, and would very much like to try to searching on
it.

Muddiest Point:
I'm curious about how long PageRank has been around and if it caught on quickly. 
If Google invented it, it's got to be fairly new.