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Enhancement in Weighted Page Rank Algorithm for Ranking Web Pages
Sowmiya.A Gayathri.A
Damodharan.P
Department Of Computer Science and Engineering
Abstract
To retrieve required information from World Wide
Web, search engines perform number of tasks based
on their respective architecture. Web structure
mining, is one such task and one of three categories
of web mining for data, and is a tool used to identify
the relationship between web pages linked by
information or direct link connection. This structure
data is discoverable by the provision of web structure
schema through database techniques for web pages.
A fast and efficient page ranking methods for web
crawling and retrieval remains as a challenging issue, most of the ranking algorithm are either link or
content oriented, which does not consider the user
usage behaviour. In this paper, a page ranking
mechanism called optimized Weighted Page Rank
algorithm being developed for search engines, which
works on the basis of weighted page rank algorithm
and takes number of visits of inbound links of web
pages into account. This algorithm tends to be very
useful in reterving more relevant information
according to user’s query. So, this concept is very
useful to display most valuable pages on the top of
the result list on the basis of user browsing behavior,
which reduce the search space to a large size.
Keywords- in link, out link ,weighted page rank
1. Introduction WWW continues to grow at an astounding
rate resulting in increase of complexity of tasks such
as web site design web server design and of simply
navigating through a web site. The WWW is huge,
widely distributed, global information service centre
for Information services, Hyper-link information and
Access and usage information. This tends to be very
difficult in discerning and Providing relevant
information to the users. Only a small portion of the
information on the Web is truly relevant or useful. it
is true that a particular person is generally interested
in only a tiny portion of the Web, while the rest of the
Web contains information that is uninteresting to the
user and may swamp desired search results. One of
the most important challenging issues in any web
search engine is finding high quality web search.
Web mining is the integration of information
gathered by traditional data mining methodologies
and techniques with information gathered over the
World Wide Web. It looks for patterns in data
through content mining, structure mining, and usage
mining. Web Content Web Content Mining is used to
examine data collected by search engines, Web
spiders and focuses on the discovery or retrieval of
the useful information from the Web contents. Web
Usage Mining is used to examine data related to a
particular user's browser as well as data gathered by
forms the user may have submitted during Web
communications and predicts the user's behaviors.
Web Structure Mining is used to examine data related
to the structure of a particular Web site emphasizes to
the discovery of how to model the underlying link
structures of the Web. It also identify the relationship
between Web pages linked by information or direct
link connection. It discovers the link structure of
hyper link at the inter document level. This type of
mining can be performed at document level as intra
page or at hyperlink level as inter page. It basically
consider the numbers of inlinks (links to a page) and
of outlinks (links from a page). In this paper
Optimized page rank is proposed which is relies on
Web Structure Mining , uses interconnection between
web pages to give weight to pages.
2. Related Works
The first well-known algorithm for ranking
web pages is page rank proposed by Lawrence Page
and Sergey Brin. Page Rank is a way to rank Web
pages taking into account hyper-link structure of the
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Web. Page Rank provides a efficient and simple
method to find out ranking of web pages exploiting
hyperlink structure of web.Using Page Rank, it is
capable to order search results so that more
significant and central Web pages are given
preference. The intuition behind Page Rank is that it
uses information which is external to the Web pages
themselves their back links, which provide a kind of
peer review. Furthermore, back links from important
pages are more momentous than back links from
average pages. Therefore the importance of any web
page can be judged by looking at the pages that link
to it. In other words, Pages are ranked high if number
of back link is high. Page Rank of a document is
always determined recursively by the Page Rank of
other documents. The major issues in the Page Rank algorithm is in
the actual web, some links in a web page may be
more important than are the others. Rank is equally
distributed to its outgoing links .
J. Kleinberg have identified a form of
equilibrium among WWW sources on a common
topic, Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search (HITS) is a
link analysis algorithm that rates Web pages. It was a
precursor to Page Rank. In the HITS algorithm, the
first step is to retrieve the most relevant pages to the
search query. This set is called the root set and can be
obtained by taking the top n pages returned by a text-
based search algorithm. These pages are then
expanded to a larger root sets as Base set by adding
any pages thar are linked to or from any page. Hits
has two kinds of useful pages as Authority page that
contains a lot of information about the query topic
and Hub page that contains a large number of links to
pages containing information. Some pages, the most prominent sources of primary content, are the
authorities on the topic, other pages, equally intrinsic
to the Kleinberg Hubs, Authorities, and
Communities. It is completely natural and many good
hubs on the Web are being created by relatively
anonymous individuals, and the main authorities on a
topic are often in competition with one another, either
explicitly or implicitly.
The issues here are its difficult to discern between
hubs and authority, not efficient in real time and
Topic drift problem occurs .
Ali Mohammad Zareh Bidoki et,al proposed
a technique as Distance Ranking based on
reinforcement learning as to avoid the problem of
“richer gets richer” problem. In this, distance
between pages are considered as punishment.
Distance is defined as the number of “average clicks” between two pages .The page with low distance will
have a higher rank. The issue is that it is good only
for small number no of iterations.
Wenpu Xing et.al proposed weighted page
rank which overcomes the problem of page rank. The
Weighted Page Rank algorithm(WPR) is an
extension of standard Page Rank algorithm. WPR
takes into account the importance of both the inlinks
and the outlinks of the pages and distributes rank
scores based on the popularity of the pages, which is
able to identify a larger digit of relevant pages to a
given query compared to Standard Page Rank. Each
outlink page gets a value proportional to its
popularity. According to Xing the more popular web
pages are the more linkages that other web pages tend
to have to them or are linked to by them. It returns
the large number of relevant pages to the user based
on query rather than the standard page rank
algorithm. Inlink of a page is calculated as given in
equation (1),
(1)
Where,
represent the number of in-links of page u
represent the number of in-links of page p
respectively.
denotes the reference page list of page v.
(v,u) is the weight of link(v, u) .
(v,u) is calculated based on the number of out
links of page u and the number of out links of all
reference pages of page v.
Similarly outlink of a page is calculated as given in
equation (2),
(2)
Where,
represent the number of out links of page u.
represent the number of out links of page page
p.
denotes the reference page list of page v.
And finally,the weighted page rank is calculated by
the formula by given in equation (3),
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Drawbacks: There is a less determination in relevancy of pages to
a given query
The algorithm relies mainly on the number connected
in links and out links.
It does not consider the user usage behaviour.
A page irrelevant to the query still receives a high
priority because of its many inlinks and outlinks.
3. Proposed System
The proposed system which is Optimized
Weighted Page Rank (OWPR) will enable the search
engine to present the best related pages to the user in
response to the queries. However the current ranking
algorithm are either link or content oriented and does
not take into account the user usage trends. The
original WPR takes both the inlink and outlink and
distribute the rank score based on the popularity .
Optimized WPR gives higher rank value to the outgoing link which is most visited by user and
neglect the popularity of outgoing link i.e W out
(v,u).
It make use of both web structure mining i.e.uses
interconnection between web pages to give weight to
pages and web usage mining i.e mining for user
navigation pattern. OWPR takes the number of visits
of inbound links of web pages is taken into
consideration. The rank of web page using this
algorithm can be calculated as given in equation (4),
Where,
U represents the web pages.
B(u) is the set of pages that point to u.
d denotes Dampening factor.
OWPR(u) is rank scores of page u.
(v) is rank scores of page v.
Lu is the number of visits of link which is pointing
page u from v.
TL(v) denotes total number of visits of all links
present on v.
4. Result
OWPR calculates Page Rank value or
importance of web pages based on the visits of
incoming links on a page as well as the popularity of
inlinks of a web page. This method uses link
structure of pages, the popularity of inlinks and their
browsing information, the top returned pages in the
result list is supposed to be highly relevant to the user
information needs. A link with high probability of
visit contributes more towards the rank of its out
linked pages. The rank value of any page by original
Weighted Page Rank method will be same either it is
seen by user or not, because it is totally dependent
upon link structure of Web graph and popularity of
inlinks and outinks. While the ordering of pages
using OWPR is more target-oriented.
Performance Analysis
The proposed algorithm is finding
more relevant information according to
user’s query. So, the concept is very useful
to display most valuable pages on the top of
the result list on the basis of user browsing
behaviour, which reduce the search space to
a large scale.
Fig 1 Comparision of WRR and OWPR.
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5. Conclusion
Due to the oceans of information available finding
the high quality web pages that are relevant to the
user’s query are difficult. The proposed Optimized
WPR makes use of the user usage behavior and that
the more relevant results are retrieved first. Thus
the relevant information are retrieved to the user
more quickly and efficiently.
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