Comment Don't change the web--change the way we search (Score 1) 313
The web is growing and changing at a pace that a band-aid fix like static indeces just wont solve. Database-driven web sites are simply more manageable, scale better, and more easily allow the separation of content creation from site design than static ones consisting of n-thousand HTML documents.
Technologies like XML and WDDX provide access to databases through standard protocols and are not difficult to implement. A few simple, scalable solutions include:
- Allaire's ColdFusion (for small websites)
- Allaire's Spectra for *huge* sites
- Apache in combo with some DB fun for those of you sage enough to use *nix
DB-Based web content has the potential to make the web more searchable then ever before through hierachy and content classification, but only if we do not try to reign it in. Instead, we should adapt the way we search to the emerging scalable, powerful web architechture that is the future of the web.
