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...Internet researchers used to believe that while a good search engine can rummage through as many as 1.5 billion Web pages, at least as many again were overlooked for various technical reasons. But a white paper last year from Internet search company BrightPlanet concluded that the invisible Web is actually about 500 times larger than that - and almost certainly growing faster than the visible Web. Mercifully, help is at hand. The realization that we barely skim the surface and the value of what's out there is spurring the development of some remarkable technology that can dig deeper and smarter...
...Companies like Intelliseek, BrightPlanet and Moreover (see box) are part of a business intelligence technology market that will grow, according to the technology research firm IDC, from $3.6 billion this year to $11.9 billion in 2005. They are not necessarily a threat to traditional data-peddlers, such as Dialog and Lexis-Nexis, which have been delivering information to businesses since before the World Wide Web was invented and have archives stretching back decades. But their focus on the flickering, free or low-cost information of the here and now is something the old guard will have to respond...
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