Currently –Year 2009– We Still Are Sailing "Our" Black Oceans, Id Est, We Surf Blindly the Waters of the Web, by A
The black oceans of the deep web, and the crystal clear databases by Alejandro Ochoa G. Guadalajara, State of Jalisco, Mexico Wednesday, June 24, 2009 The web is opaque. Currently –June, 2009– we are still sailing "our" black oceans. Or, we are surfing somewhat blindly the waters of the web. We accept and rely on what search engines like yahoo.com, bing.com, ask.com, google.com, kosmix.com, hakia.com, lexxe.com, answers.com/bb, wolframalpha.com, cuil.com, deeppeep.org, clusty.com, http://blindsearch.fejus.com, duckduckgo.com, yauba, hunch.com, oneriot, scoopler, powerset, et cetera, retrieve from the internet by using their web crawlers, bots or robots, ants, automatic indexers, worms, spiders, or Web scutters, and then delivering the results of their searches to us through the links their software creates. I think the time has come for someone to tell the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that soon there will be a need to create at least three new top-level domains (TLDs): .odb, .sdb, and .fdb (open databases, shareable databases, and free databases). There are several well-known TLDs: .aero, .asia, .biz, .cat, .com, .coop, .gov, .gob [in Spanish], .info, .int, .jobs, .mil, .mobi, .museum, .name, .net, .org, .pro, .tel, .travel, .tv, et cetera. I believe it would be ideal, “perfect” or good for many of us internet surfers to stop being surfers, and become internet divers or crew members of a submarine or a bathyscaphe. We would be better if we could leave the surfboard or the clipper or the yacht, and enter a submarine or a bathyscaphe in order to see directly what the deep oceans of the web conceal.
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