Secret Hidden Web Search Engines

Nearly 90 percent of the web is off limits if you aren't searching using Hidden Web search engines. If you want to find more than just what shows up on Google, then you need to know your way around the Hidden Web.


What are hidden web search engines? They are search engines that allow you to search across the web for sites that store data which is not easily spidered by Google or other surface web engines. These major sites can only look at text or labels within the text. They can't search databases, and they can't search the content of video, audio or other materials on the Web. This kind of non-searchable material forms the vast majority of what's available on the Web.


If you use a hidden web search engine though, you are using specific search engines designed to retrieve results from sites with that specialized, difficult to find data.

Are these search engines really "secret"? No not really, but it takes some digging to find them. In addition, you can find different ways to search the Web even using the surface web search engines to target better results. Some search engines for example focus on only governmental databases. Some focus on providing documents instead of HTML web pages. Knowing which engine will get you the results you need is part of the hidden web of search engines.

There are specific hidden web search engines for government research, academic research at universities, corporate research from R&D departments, not to mention all of the documents and data stored by local and state governments, smaller colleges, private organizations and foundations, and much much more. Generally, most of this can be found on the hidden web, and much of it can be used by any person or business for research and business purposes.