21. The method of claim 14 , further comprising: displaying a listing of available data sources; and upon selection of an available data source in the displayed listing of available data sources, visually displaying a description of the selected available data source.
14. A method for operating a graphical user interface (GUI) for a system for querying web data, comprising: entering a query language (QL) statement in a query entry window of the GUI, wherein the QL statement identifies one or more QL tables associated with one or more web data sources, wherein each of the one or more QL tables includes binding data which includes instructions for a QL web service on creating a universal resource locator (URL) to access and retrieve data from a web data source, and for interfacing with the web data source and interacting with the web data source in order to query the web data source for specific data present at the web data source, and wherein the binding data of each of the one or more QL tables informs the QL web service as to what types of data are present within the web data source; generating a QL web service URL defined to execute the QL statement, the QL web service URL defined to access one or more QL tables identified in the QL statement through the Internet and retrieve direction from the one or more QL tables regarding access and retrieval of data from the one or more web data sources associated with the one or more QL tables identified in the QL statement; executing the QL statement through a QL web service underlying the graphical user interface via the generated QL web service URL; displaying results data generated by execution of the QL statement in a results display window of the GUI; and displaying the QL web service URL defined to execute the QL statement in a URL display window of the GUI.