Describing Web pages better in search results

This work presents an algorithm for generating internet Web page descriptions automatically in situations where the need is for a lot of information within a few sentences, a typical example being the descriptions of Web pages in search results. Such descriptions often prove to be very useful aids for navigation. Many search engines provide extracts from the page as a description. But studies say that extracts from pages do not usually serve the cause. A page is often described by other pages better that by itself. This work presents an algorithm, which retrieves descriptions about a page from those linking to it and ranks them. The descriptions generated on test sets have been compared to those generated by acclaimed search engines. It may well be noted that Google (http://www.google.com) and many other search engines have not publicized the algorithm that they use.