creators_name: Agrawal, Sanjay creators_name: Chakrabarti, Kaushik creators_name: Chaudhuri, Surajit creators_name: Ganti, Venkatesh creators_name: Christian König, Arnd creators_name: Xin, Dong type: conference_item datestamp: 2009-04-06 19:09:55 lastmod: 2009-04-14 04:37:07 metadata_visibility: show title: Exploiting Web Search Engines to Search Structured Databases ispublished: pub full_text_status: public pres_type: paper abstract: Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing their descriptions and specifications. The relevant structured data items are then returned to the user along with web search results. However, each structured database is searched in isolation. Hence, the search often produces empty or incomplete results as the database may not contain the required information to answer the query. In this paper, we propose a novel integrated search architecture. We establish and exploit the relationships between web search results and the items in structured databases to identify the relevant structured data items for a much wider range of queries. Our architecture leverages existing search engine components to implement this functionality at very low overhead. We demonstrate the quality and efficiency of our techniques through an extensive experimental study. date: 2009-04 pagerange: 501-501 event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference event_location: Madrid, Spain event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009 event_type: conference refereed: TRUE citation: Agrawal, Sanjay and Chakrabarti, Kaushik and Chaudhuri, Surajit and Ganti, Venkatesh and Christian Knig, Arnd and Xin, Dong (2009) Exploiting Web Search Engines to Search Structured Databases. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain. document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/51/1/p501.pdf