STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching

Summary: STARTS proposes an Internet meta-search protocol to query and merge results across heterogeneous sources. Distinctive as a group effort led by Stanford's Digital Library with partners, emphasizing governance and metadata exposure over formal standardization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3009
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 6.4005976e-05
Overall Rank: 5,013 | 65.61%
DOI: 10.1145/253260.253299

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Luis Gravano (Stanford University)
2. Chen-Chuan K. Chang (Stanford University)
3. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)
4. Andreas Paepcke (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gravano_sigmod97,
        title = {{STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching}},
        author = {Gravano, Luis and Chang, Chen-Chuan K. and Garcia-Molina, Hector and Paepcke, Andreas},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '97},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/253260.253299},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253260.253299},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,483	Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection	2002	VLDB	0.00010633832
1,601	Automatic Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases	1999	SIGMOD	0.00010239819
3,022	Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources	1997	VLDB	7.8398496e-05
12,768	When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage	2004	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,923	A Multi-Similarity Algebra	1998	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,016	Generalizing GlOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies	1995	VLDB	9.3030756e-05
4,022	The Effectiveness of GLOSS for the Text Database Discovery Problem	1994	SIGMOD	6.9498405e-05

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