W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web

Summary: SQL-like web query language to mine heterogeneous WWW data and exploit node structure for flexible queries. Leverages Unix tools (grep, awk) and browsers for processing, intuitive presentation, and continuous result maintenance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8257
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 0.00023220283
Overall Rank: 438 | 96.96%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Konopnicki
2. Oded Shmueli

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
61	DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases	1997	VLDB	0.00064281097
150	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00041081536
276	Regular Path Queries with Constraints	1997	PODS	0.00029365217
880	DTD Inference for Views of XML Data	2000	PODS	0.00015642282
928	DTL’s DataSpot: Database Exploration Using Plain Language	1998	VLDB	0.00015236575
1,026	WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web*	2000	SIGMOD	0.00014595291
1,601	Formal Models of Web Queries	1997	PODS	0.00011197057
1,663	Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data	1998	VLDB	0.00010961643
1,667	Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data	1996	VLDB	0.00010947593
1,922	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	0.00010084845
2,210	To Weave the Web	1997	VLDB	9.2875159e-05
2,229	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	9.2422485e-05
3,683	Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data	1999	PODS	6.84255e-05
4,014	A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML	2001	PODS	6.5300582e-05
8,983	A Layered Architecture for Querying Dynamic Web Content	1999	SIGMOD	4.4134881e-05
12,700	Toward Learning Based Web Query Processing	2000	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,747	DTL's DataSpot: Database Exploration as Easy as Browsing the Web...	1998	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
467	Querying and Updating the File*	1993	VLDB	0.00022431377

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1,667	Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data	1996	VLDB	0.00010947593
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