Searching the Hidden Internet with TellFinder

A recent Scientific American article details efforts to revolutionize Internet search technology by allowing people to review “deep web” data and search and review results in a fraction of the time. TellFinder, our search tool for finding and visualizing connections in structured and unstructured media stores, was designed to address these goals. The article shows TellFinder XHT’s ability to interactively map millions of sex advertisements in time and space and to graph relationships between automatically aggregated ad groups based on email addresses and phone numbers they share online.