Search Engines With Particular Reference To Multilingual Search

Abstract

How to find needed information from the web is a critical issue in the Internet. Fortunately, search engines are useful tools to retrieve information from the Internet. Although, Internet users speak different languages most of the resources are written and published in English. This research investigates multilingual search and ways to develop multilingual search engine models. The purpose of multilingual search is to help people finding useful contents stored in multiple languages. This research examines the case of English and Arabic languages. The research addresses search engines and information retrieval topics such as ranking, crawling, indexing resources, query execution and results relevancy. The model presented for multilingual search engine is illustrated by a practical example of the on-line site of Sudan University of Science and Technology journal.