Why Search Engines are used increasingly to Offload Queries from Databases

Summary: Offloads database queries to search engines for extreme performance and scalability across structured and unstructured data; introduces fuzzy matching and ranking to separate signal from noise. Patterns: mirror DB content, use search as default access for apps, and BI via on-the-fly contextual relations across billions of documents. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9235
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
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Overall Rank: 13,659 | 4.98%
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1. Bjørn Olstad

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