Connect Your Mind with the Body of Knowledge The Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) is for researchers who find it difficult to locate and search relevant, evaluated online databases. The ISEN is the foundation of a portal that comprehensively catalogs the Internet's databases. Unlike Yahoo or Google and other portals that keyword index a portion of constantly changing web sites, ISEN focuses on the niche of cataloging databases. ISEN facilitates access and adds value by creating more effective and efficient Internet search experiences. All Your Databases Belong To You ISEN is the foundation of a marketplace for information owners and vendors who desire more exposure of their information product to a broader range of Internet researchers. ISEN provides an auditing tool for organizations and individuals to find refined and structured resources that have been obscured by the rapid and overwhelming growth of web pages. ISEN provides a new proposed library standard for organizing databases that is historically overdue. The Database of Databases You know how the ISBN is assigned to books. Over 1 million books are assigned ISBNs each year. What ISEN plans to do is emulate that system for databases. We would assign over 1 million databases ISEN or Internet Search Environment Numbers once the system is in place in its first year. There may be as many as 5 million in the backlog for cataloging by a social nework of librarians. Life Science databases would be cataloged by life science librarians, law resources by law librarians, etc... Then we would create a database of databases or search engine only for databases. Your hit list would only be databases instead of PDF files, blog postings and random HTML files. We pull out the databases. The hits you get would be the interface to databases which provides access to upwards of 500 to 650 times the amount of information available on the "surface web" indexed by the major search engines. ISEN reveals the what is called the "deep web". Help This Vision Become a Destination Sign Up for the Friends of ISEN List Read & Respond to the ISEN Blog Contact ISEN for Details Matt Theobald Founder & General Manager Paul Thompson Chief Technology Officer Rick Wehrle Chief Analytics Officer © Copyright 2008, ISEN L.L.C.