AJAXSearch: Crawling, Indexing and Searching Web 2.0 Applications

Summary: Proposes AJAXSearch, a crawler, indexer, and query processor for AJAX/Web 2.0 apps to index dynamic content traditional engines miss. It auto-discovers application states by triggering UI events, scales state-space crawling with deduplication, and provides ranking. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9966
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.6607496e-05
Overall Rank: 7,264 | 50.17%
DOI: 10.14778/1454159.1454195

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Authors

1. Cristian Duda (ETH Zurich)
2. Gianni Frey (ETH Zurich)
3. Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich)
4. Chong Zhou (ETH Zurich; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{duda_vldb08,
        title = {{AJAXSearch: Crawling, Indexing and Searching Web 2.0 Applications}},
        author = {Duda, Cristian and Frey, Gianni and Kossmann, Donald and Zhou, Chong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1440--1441},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454195},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454195},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,939	Extracting Equivalent SQL from Imperative Code in Database Applications	2016	SIGMOD	7.9395908e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
37	DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases	2002	VLDB	0.00048017193
77	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00037048607
1,898	DBXplorer: Enabling Keyword Search over Relational Databases	2002	SIGMOD	9.5240947e-05
6,150	Flexible and Efficient XML Search with Complex Full-Text Predicates	2006	SIGMOD	5.9579906e-05

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