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Foil 52 The Web Search Interface

From IBM Tutorial on Web Technology for HPCC IBM Poughkeepsie -- February 7 1996. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
Form-based CGI - integration of a Web server and the backend database search engine
Requires high-performance server to support large number of concurrent users - parallel technology can play a big role here !
Major issues
  • interface design - easy to use, navigation buttons, fewer clicks, etc.
  • sessionless web interaction -> session-oriented database transaction, e.g. navigate through query results
  • query refining - search domain of a newer query can be results of the previous query whose domain is the whole text database
  • highlighted keywords in returned documents, not just pointed to the original URLs
  • support queries in natural languages and in many different languages
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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