Symphony: A Platform for Search-Driven Applications

• Main Authors: SHAFER, John C., AGRAWAL, Rakesh, LAUW, Hady W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Web services; search engines; Microsoft Bing infrastructure; Symphony platform; cloud services; search-driven applications; Advertising; Cloud computing; Indexing; Motion pictures; Prototypes; Uniform resource locators; Web search; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1502; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2501/viewcontent/Symphony_ICDE_2010.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We present the design of Symphony, a platform that enables non-developers to build and deploy a new class of search-driven applications that combine their data and domain expertise with content from search engines and other web services. The Symphony prototype has been built on top of Microsoft's Bing infrastructure. While Symphony naturally makes use of the customization capabilities exposed by Bing, its distinguishing feature is the capability it provides to the application creator to combine their proprietary data and domain expertise with content obtained from Bing. They can also integrate specialized data obtained from web services to enhance the richness of their applications. Finally, Symphony is targeted at non-developers and provides cloud services for the creation and deployment of applications.