Why Search Engines are used increasingly to Offload Queries from Databases

Summary: Argues that search engines are evolving into scalable query layers for structured and unstructured data, adding fuzzy matching, ranking, and contextual relationships beyond binary database evaluation. Highlights mirroring, search-first access, and BI offloading as emerging patterns. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9426
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
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Overall Rank: 13,860 | 4.91%
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Authors

1. Bjørn Olstad (FAST Search & Transfer)

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@article{olstad_vldb05,
        title = {{Why Search Engines are used increasingly to Offload Queries from Databases}},
        author = {Olstad, Bjørn},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        year = {2005}
}

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