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: h53bf570a5e8fdad3
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 4.9605343e-05
Overall Rank: 13,094 | 12.23%
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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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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
5	Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract]	2001	PODS	0.0010688884
45	A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces	1998	VLDB	0.00044967652
110	Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00032662513
1,026	Querying and Updating the File	1993	VLDB	0.00012393891
1,339	Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System	1998	SIGMOD	0.0001096441
1,451	Fast Incremental Indexing for Full-Text Information Retrieval	1994	VLDB	0.00010589246
1,539	Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees	2004	VLDB	0.00010292787
1,574	Reverse kNN Search in Arbitrary Dimensionality	2004	VLDB	0.00010164216
1,712	Rank-aware Query Optimization	2004	SIGMOD	9.7961248e-05
2,160	Flexible Queries over Semistructured Data	2001	PODS	8.9217916e-05
2,260	Automatic Categorization of Query Results	2004	SIGMOD	8.7355244e-05
2,609	Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax	2004	SIGMOD	8.2052997e-05
2,677	FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML	2004	SIGMOD	8.1266688e-05
2,793	To Weave the Web	1997	VLDB	7.9879187e-05
3,025	Indexing the Distance: An Efficient Method to KNN Processing	2001	VLDB	7.7214661e-05
4,242	Foundations of Semantic Web Databases	2004	PODS	6.6984096e-05
4,940	The ARANEUS Web-Base Management System	1998	SIGMOD	6.331993e-05
9,246	A Layered Architecture for Querying Dynamic Web Content	1999	SIGMOD	5.1862577e-05
10,052	Object Fusion in Geographic Information Systems	2004	VLDB	5.0786422e-05

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