GTE SuperPages: Using IR Techniques for Searching Complex Objects

The yellow pagesservice of GTE SuperPages enables Web users to flexibly search through liitings of 11 million businessesin over 17000 categories. To achievethe flexibility desired it usesan Information Retrieval (IR) engine to search through complex listing objects. The objects themselves are stored in an object database. The use of the IR engine enables us to create an index that spans all the components of a complex object.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: VLDB
• Authors: Steven D. Whitehead, Himanshu Sinha, Michael Murphy
• Keywords: Complex Listing Objects, Database, IR Engine, Superpages Enables Web, VLDB 1997