Not too many believers for Dipsie, the search services Valley startup.
The company today is launching a service called DCloak, which helps Web site owners “reveal content that is currently invisible to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN.” The service is aimed at Web sites with content that’s stuck in the “deep web.”
The approach is unique. Imagine a site with content that can’t be crawled by a regular search engine, perhaps because its web pages are dynamically generated out of a database. Dipsie takes technology that Weiner has been developing over the last several years and uses it to crawl the hard-to-crawl site. Then the company builds an identical set of static web pages that are loaded onto the Web server and made available to other search engines. In other words, Dipsie takes sites that can’t be seen by search engines and builds identical mirror sites that can.
“In cases where page weren’t visible, they’re now visible,” Weiner told us at the company’s Palo Alto offices last week.
One, do you really need mirror copies to get indexed? Two, why would I pay someone to copy my content and to host them on their own servers? At the end of the day, the original content residing on my server would still remain uncrawlable. Too many red flags for me.
Remember it’s Dipsie, not Dipshit or Dipsink.
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