Content on the web is divided between two worlds--much of it is accessed and crawled by standard search engines (e.g., Google), while a greater portion is "hidden" behind search forms and logins. This data is known as the "deep web". It is inaccessible to standard search engines, and, by some estimates, constitutes a body of content several hundred times the size of the "surface web".

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search allows much of your data to be searched in a simple way. Chances are, though, there's a lot of data you'd like be to be able to search, but that data either can't be crawled (e.g., because it's only accessible through forms) or an Oracle SES connector hasn't been written for it. That's where screen-scraper™ comes in.