WEB SEARCH AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Abstract: The Internet is one of the main sources of information for millions of people. One can find information related to practically all matters on the internet. Moreover, if we want to retrieve information about some particular topic, we may find thousands of Web Pages related to that topic. But our main concern is to find relevant Web Pages from among that collection. So, in this paper, I have discussed how information is retrieved from the web and the efforts required for retrieving this information in terms of system and users’ efforts.

Keywords: Information retrieval, Page ranking, Evaluation of information retrieval system.