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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
9052
Venue
VLDB
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00010633832
Overall Rank
1,483 | 89.83%
DOI
10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50042-1

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BibTeX Citation

@article{ipeirotis_vldb02,
        title = {{Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection}},
        author = {Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G. and Gravano, Luis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50042-1},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50042-1},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
974 To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks 2006 SIGMOD 0.00012870746
1,554 Google’s Deep-Web Crawl 2008 VLDB 0.00010372108
1,820 Information Sharing Across Private Databases 2003 SIGMOD 9.6791131e-05
4,471 Harnessing the Deep Web: Present and Future 2009 CIDR 6.6813981e-05
5,732 Effective Keyword-based Selection of Relational Databases 2007 SIGMOD 6.1064568e-05
6,883 Facet Discovery for Structured Web Search: A Query-log Mining Approach 2011 SIGMOD 5.7468523e-05
7,903 Mining a Search Engine’s Corpus: Efficient Yet Unbiased Sampling and Aggregate Estimation 2011 SIGMOD 5.5182155e-05
8,671 Unbiased Estimation of Size and Other Aggregates Over Hidden Web Databases 2010 SIGMOD 5.3876663e-05
8,705 Progressive Deep Web Crawling Through Keyword Queries For Data Enrichment 2019 SIGMOD 5.3807913e-05
9,683 Optimal Algorithms for Crawling a Hidden Database in the Web 2012 VLDB 5.2352357e-05
9,684 Attribute Domain Discovery for Hidden Web Databases 2011 SIGMOD 5.2352357e-05
12,285 Rank Discovery From Web Databases 2013 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,495 Privacy Preservation of Aggregates in Hidden Databases: Why and How? 2009 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
12,520 Kosmix: High-Performance Topic Exploration using the Deep Web 2009 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,768 When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage 2004 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,601 Automatic Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases 1999 SIGMOD 0.00010239819
1,625 Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet 1998 VLDB 0.00010191388
4,524 Probe, Count, and Classify: Categorizing Hidden-Web Databases 2001 SIGMOD 6.6457031e-05
5,013 STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching 1997 SIGMOD 6.4005976e-05
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