A Survey on Personalized Search: An Web Information Retrieval System

Abstract — Nowadays, computers and internet has become inseparable parts of our life. Throughout the world, web has become the best source of abundant information. Search engines play a key role in finding out the information; they are enhanced with new advanced search technologies. Though search engines find much information with one key word, fail to provide the accurate, exact data that is required. Through research it has found that users will not have much interest if it is delayed and can't afford to spend time with queries. This time constrain can be observed in many situations. Hence the most significant point in the applications of the search engines is to find accurate information immediately. This aspect of accurate and immediate information for a search can be solved by personalized web environments. There is an increasing importance to the personalized web environment. This paper defines many user personalization approaches and techniques, which are useful in web search domain and the systems that are at present used on the Internet