Open AccessINFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND WEB SEARCH
Author(s) -
Dr.Natarajan P,
Sonali Pandey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international research journal of computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2393-9842
DOI - 10.26562/irjcs.2021.v0808.010
Subject(s) - information retrieval , ranking (information retrieval) , search engine , search engine indexing , web search query , computer science , popularity , world wide web , web query classification , query expansion , metasearch engine , web search engine , quality (philosophy) , political science , philosophy , epistemology , law
This article discusses Web search engines; mainly the challenges in indexing the World Wide Web, the user behaviour, and the ranking factors used by these engines. Ranking factors are divided into query-dependent and query-independent factors, the latter of which have become more and more important within recent years. The possibilities of these factors are limited, mainly of those that are based on the widely used link popularity measures. The article concludes with an overview of factors that should be considered to determine the quality of Web search engines.