Discovering Computers 2005

Web Databases

How might a search engine interact with a Web database?

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Step 1. Browser sends search text to Web server.

Step 2. Web server sends search text through a CGI script to database. Database retrieves list of hits that contains search text and sends it through CGI script back to Web server.

Step 3. Web server sends list of hits to browser.

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