Google digs Digg

In the quest for the Invisible Web, I thought about Digg.com and whether Digg could be considered being part of the Deep Web. This struck me when my previous post appeared in Digg and almost instantaneously was available in the Top results in Google.

My brain started to work and I thought 'lets do some research'. Many questions popped up in the process ;

• Is Google in some sort of partnership with Digg?
• Is Google already employing some deep web techniques?
• Or, I was plain lucky yesterday?

Google in one of its patent application provides a glimpse of how it is going to search through content which is accessible through web-based forms.

The Abstract says...

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One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates searching through content which is accessible though web-based forms. During operation, the system receives a query containing keywords. Next, the system analyzes the query to create a structured query. The system then performs a lookup based on the structured query in a database containing entries describing the web-based forms. Next, the system ranks forms returned by the lookup, and uses the rankings and associated database entries to facilitate a search through content which is accessible through the forms.

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My immediate reaction was whether Google had already started using Digg for the application of the above concept. On second thoughts, as the Digg Search is powered by Google so it could already be using the same search web form to submit queries to Digg database and fetch the stories.


Digg has a very high page rank value, but should this guarantee content to appears in the initial pages of Google? , well that's another question.

Anyways, My belief on Digg and Deep Web is that Google might have already started working on the Deep Web and we will be able to see results on the google search pages from the far far depths of the web in future. Keep Looking!!