Database-Inspired Search

Summary: Revisits W3QL, a declarative WWW query language using indexes, semi-structured predicates, dynamic navigational views, and form-filling to expose the hidden web. Argues its optimizable, database-style integration remains relevant for enterprise/web search across XML, text, objects, and semantic data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9493
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,756 | 12.49%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. David Konopnicki (IBM)
2. Oded Shmueli (Technion)

BibTeX Citation

@article{konopnicki_vldb05,
        title = {{Database-Inspired Search}},
        author = {Konopnicki, David and Shmueli, Oded},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '05},
        year = {2005}
}

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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
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010828372
46	A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces	1998	VLDB	0.00044853085
108	Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00033228866
1,001	Querying and Updating the File	1993	VLDB	0.00012714843
1,302	Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System	1998	SIGMOD	0.00011238375
1,407	Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval	1994	VLDB	0.00010856546
1,519	Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees	2004	VLDB	0.00010513777
1,612	Reverse kNN Search in Arbitrary Dimensionality	2004	VLDB	0.00010218134
1,759	Rank-aware Query Optimization	2004	SIGMOD	9.8160244e-05
2,138	Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data	2001	PODS	9.109132e-05
2,204	Automatic Categorization of Query Results	2004	SIGMOD	8.959723e-05
2,554	Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax	2004	SIGMOD	8.4252755e-05
2,616	FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML	2004	SIGMOD	8.339188e-05
2,727	To Weave the Web	1997	VLDB	8.200085e-05
2,979	Indexing the Distance: An Efficient Method to KNN Processing	2001	VLDB	7.8984588e-05
4,139	Foundations of Semantic Web Databases	2004	PODS	6.8776612e-05
4,802	The ARANEUS Web-Base Management System	1998	SIGMOD	6.5018655e-05
9,043	A Layered Architecture for Querying Dynamic Web Content	1999	SIGMOD	5.3253843e-05
9,823	Object Fusion in Geographic Information Systems	2004	VLDB	5.214913e-05

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