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Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection
Summary: Proposes metasearch over hidden-web databases via adaptive probes to produce content summaries with absolute word-frequency estimates. Introduces a hierarchical selection algorithm using these summaries and an induced taxonomy to surpass flat methods, validated on 50 real databases.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 8862
- Venue
- VLDB
- Year
- 2002
- Pagerank
- 0.00010842505
- Overall Rank
- 1,447 | 89.95%
- DOI
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| 974 |
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2006 |
SIGMOD |
0.00012960089 |
| 1,351 |
Google's Deep-Web Crawl |
2008 |
VLDB |
0.00011167301 |
| 1,803 |
Information Sharing Across Private Databases |
2003 |
SIGMOD |
9.8173741e-05 |
| 4,412 |
Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future |
2009 |
CIDR |
6.7800922e-05 |
| 5,652 |
Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases |
2007 |
SIGMOD |
6.1998008e-05 |
| 6,770 |
Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach |
2011 |
SIGMOD |
5.8356374e-05 |
| 7,781 |
Mining a Search Engine’s Corpus: Efficient Yet Unbiased Sampling and Aggregate Estimation |
2011 |
SIGMOD |
5.6039053e-05 |
| 8,554 |
Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment |
2019 |
SIGMOD |
5.4726897e-05 |
| 8,565 |
Unbiased Estimation of Size and Other Aggregates Over Hidden Web Databases |
2010 |
SIGMOD |
5.4712742e-05 |
| 9,541 |
Optimal Algorithms for Crawling a Hidden Database in the Web |
2012 |
VLDB |
5.3165429e-05 |
| 9,542 |
Attribute Domain Discovery for Hidden Web Databases |
2011 |
SIGMOD |
5.3165429e-05 |
| 12,096 |
Rank Discovery From Web Databases |
2013 |
VLDB |
5.1725247e-05 |
| 12,309 |
Privacy Preservation of Aggregates in Hidden Databases: Why and How? |
2009 |
SIGMOD |
5.1725247e-05 |
| 12,334 |
Kosmix: High-Performance Topic Exploration using the Deep Web |
2009 |
VLDB |
5.1725247e-05 |
| 12,584 |
When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage |
2004 |
SIGMOD |
5.1725247e-05 |
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