Towards Web-Based Information Retrieval in Grid Environment

Traditional information retrieval has long been dominated by a location-centric organization of application objects and requires users to specify a path to access desired objects. Grid-based information retrieval is a new initiative to bring together information retrieval techniques with grid technologies. Grid technologies will offer new techniques and powerful information retrieval systems, whilst information retrieval will offer the grid new ways of handling and discovering information. This paper analyzes grid-based information retrieval. Grid-based information retrieval is capable of searching vast amounts of geographically distributed information, which in many cases could not be searched effectively, if at all, by traditional information retrieval. Then, this paper probes into the process of grid-based information retrieval. Lastly, this paper explores the architecture for grid-based information retrieval.