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'...