Local Knowledge Online Lko

http://localknowledgeonline.com/ What is Local Knowledge Online (LKO)? Where knowledge workers, scientists, engineers, business and information professionals go to search, discover, preview and acquire eBooks and eReference they don’t know about or cannot access, either because these resources are not a part of their “community” or because they have not been granted access. LKO enables individuals and professionals to freely search or browse eBook collections previously buried in the Deep Web and, for the first time, have the option of subscribing to these collections. What is “local knowledge”? When “locals” have knowledge that is of interest and value to others, it is referred to as “local knowledge”. However, this knowledge is not always shared or freely accessible, either because it's simply a part of their “community”, or because it provides them with an advantage. In the online world, local knowledge is hidden or buried in the "deep” Web beyond the reach of conventional search engines. Depending on whom you ask, this buried content is estimated to be as much as 500 times larger than the Surface Web, which is conservatively estimated to be at least twenty billion pages. If major search engines index only Surface Web content, then they miss billions of pages of content buried in the Deep Web.