Probe, Count, and Classify: Categorizing Hidden-Web Databases
Summary: Automates hidden-web database categorization with a small set of query probes; uses per-probe match counts, no page retrieval. Evaluated on 100+ real databases; achieves low overhead and high accuracy for automatic hierarchical categorization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,486 | Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00011691409 |
| 2,098 | Knocking the Door to the Deep Web: Integrating Web Query Interfaces | 2004 | SIGMOD | 9.5432874e-05 |
| 5,141 | A Random Walk Approach to Sampling Hidden Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.6627467e-05 |
| 12,643 | From Focused Crawling to Expert Information: an Application Framework for Web Exploration and Portal Generation | 2003 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,057 | Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet | 1998 | VLDB | 0.00014376054 |
| 1,133 | Automatic Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases | 1999 | SIGMOD | 0.00013765547 |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 5,141 | A Random Walk Approach to Sampling Hidden Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.6627467e-05 |
| 2,428 | Instance-based Schema Matching for Web Databases by Domain-specific Query Probing | 2004 | VLDB | 8.8293516e-05 |
| 108 | WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00048345996 |
| 767 | Distributed Hypertext Resource Discovery Through Examples | 1999 | VLDB | 0.00016881135 |
| 1,538 | Google's Deep-Web Crawl | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00011455291 |
| 8,674 | Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment | 2019 | SIGMOD | 4.4659264e-05 |
| 233 | Crawling the Hidden Web | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00031996412 |
| 8,680 | Unbiased Estimation of Size and Other Aggregates Over Hidden Web Databases | 2010 | SIGMOD | 4.4634799e-05 |
| 1,486 | Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00011691409 |
| 9,549 | Optimal Algorithms for Crawling a Hidden Database in the Web | 2012 | VLDB | 4.3216687e-05 |