The other day Yahoo launched a beta version of its new Yahoo Search Subscriptions service, which lets users search a number of subscription content sources and the web from one search box. The new service offers users the ability to search for personal subscription content found in the "deep web" as they call it. This includes millions of access-restricted Web sites containing content that search engines can't usually access. For now, Yahoo is offering Among the sites included in Yahoo's Search Subscriptions service are ConsumerReports.org, The Wall Street Journal Online, TheStreet.com, The New England Journal of Medicine, IEEE and Forrester Research, and subscription content from Financial Times. Yahoo said that content from Factiva, LexisNexis AlaCarte! pay-as-you-go, Thomson Gale and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) will be available within the next few weeks. "We are in the very early stages of providing our users with access to the deep web through Yahoo! Search Subscriptions and over the coming months we plan to expand this program to further accommodate our users' wide range of interests," said Yahoo! Search's vice president of product management Eckart Walther. Chris is a staff writer for latest ebusiness news.
Some Question Originality of Yahoo's Deep Web Service
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