You may have read a story like this:
…The “visible web” is what you can find using general web search engines. It’s also what you see in almost all subject directories. The “invisible web” is what you cannot find using these types of tools.
The first version of this web page was written in 2000, when this topic was new and baffling to many web searchers. Since then, search engines’ crawlers and indexing programs have overcome many of the technical barriers that made it impossible for them to find “invisible” web pages. …
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html
But today on Slashdot I read:
Technology: Google Labs Offers Table-Based Search Results
Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 04, @09:26AM
from the i-want-chair-based-results dept.blackbearnh writes “Google just released Google Squared into the Google Labs playground. Google Squared lets you get results back in row and column format, and then add more columns to the result set. There’s a brief tour of the features over on O’Reilly Radar, where the judgement is that there’s lots of rough edges, but a huge amount of potential, especially for quick and dirty table generation for reports
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/04/138213/Google-Labs-Offers-Table-Based-Search-Results
So, you may soon be able to search for table based flight information using a web based search engine like Google.
