Databases deepen the Web

The Web has become the preferred medium for many database applications, such as e-commerce and digital libraries. These applications store information in huge databases that users access, query, and update through the Web. Database-driven Web sites have their own interfaces and access forms for crea...

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Published in:Computer (Long Beach, Calif.) Calif.), 2004-01, Vol.37 (1), p.116-117
Main Authors: Ghanem, T.M., Aref, W.G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
HTML
Internet
Java
Load management
Middleware
Search engines
Service oriented architecture
Web search
Web server
Web sites
Writing
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Summary:The Web has become the preferred medium for many database applications, such as e-commerce and digital libraries. These applications store information in huge databases that users access, query, and update through the Web. Database-driven Web sites have their own interfaces and access forms for creating HTML pages on the fly. Web database technologies define the way that these forms can connect to and retrieve data from database servers. The number of database-driven Web sites is increasing exponentially, and each site is creating pages dynamically-pages that are hard for traditional search engines to reach. Such search engines crawl and index static HTML pages; they do not send queries to Web databases. The information hidden inside Web databases is called the "deep Web" in contrast to the "surface Web" that traditional search engines access easily. We expect deep Web search engines and technologies to improve rapidly and to dramatically affect how the Web is used by providing easy access to many more information resources.
ISSN:0018-9162
1558-0814
DOI:10.1109/MC.2004.1260731