tedster - 9:04 pm on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

Some of us have openly wondered if Dipsie, the "coming soon" search engine, is anything but vaporware with a nice overlay of PR buzz. I just read an article that had the most concrete tidbit I have yet read - Dipsie's approach for indexing content from the dynamic pages in the "deep web".

In particular, crawlers are stymied by dynamic Web pages, which are customized as users choose various options, such as car color at Cars.com. To counter that, Chicago-based Dipsie Inc. is developing software that promises to fill out Cars.com's simple online forms, which are based on multiple choice, though not the complex ones for the government's patent and trademark databases, which require typing in keywords. A public test version is expected by summer. Mercury News [mercurynews.com]