LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico – Dec. 11, 2002 — This week marks the launch of science.gov (http://www.science.gov), a web site dedicated to providing reliable science and technology information to the public. Deep Web Technologies, LLC developed the technology behind science.gov's search page, http://www.science.gov/search.html, which allows a convenient search of thirty databases from one simple form. Access to these databases is the product of a major collaboration effort among fourteen organizations from ten major science agencies within the Federal government.
The advanced technology that powers the science.gov search page is Deep Web Technologies' cutting-edge Distributed Explorit technology. Distributed Explorit employs federated searching and retrieval technologies to simultaneously seek information in numerous online databases. The sophistication of the Distributed Explorit technology does not, however, demand sophistication of its users. Searching is intuitive, users don't need to learn a different search language for each database, and the results from all database searches are combined into one results page with links to individual documents.
Distributed Explorit's capabilities extend vastly beyond those of the popular search engines in that it searches the "deep web", which consists of a large collection of databases that typically contain much higher quality content than that which is available with the "surface" search engines such as Google and Lycos.
Science.gov is the brainchild of Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information director Dr. Walter Warnick, who cites the value of the technology behind the new web site: "It is only by means of deep web searching, as offered by Deep Web Technologies that Science.gov is able to make searchable tens of millions of pages of scientific and technical information generated by the Federal R&D program. As the great bulk of that information is not accessible via popular web search engines, Deep Web Technologies is performing an extremely valuable service. No longer need a web patron know ahead of time which agency is doing what kind of research."
"Previously, a researcher looking for first-rate content would have to learn how to query ten different databases, each with its own quirks. Then he'd have to go to the search pages for each of the databases, do the searches, and view the results for each search separately," said Deep Web Technologies president and founder Abe Lederman. "It was a very fragmented process and users would frequently overlook important search results. Distributed Explorit strips away all that complexity. There's just one search to type in no matter how many databases you want to query, and there's just one results page, with links to all of the documents from all of the searches; everything is neatly organized for you on one page."
Deep Web Technologies will be maintaining and enhancing the search technology for OSTI.
About Deep Web Technologies:
Deep Web Technologies (DWT) is a small business based in Los Alamos, NM. DWT founder Abe Lederman developed an earlier version of Explorit in 1994 while working as a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory. The success of the Explorit concept and resulting technology, along with the explosive growth of the World Wide Web, led to the formation of Innovative Web Applications in 1996 and of DWT in 2002. DWT's main mission is to help companies capitalize on the advantages of information sharing in an intranet/internet environment and to harness the power of today's increased information access.
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