%0 Journal Article %T Web Search Result Clustering- A Review %A Kishwar Sadaf %A Mansaf Alam %J International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Survey %D 2012 %I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) %X The ever-increasing information on the web with its heterogeneity and dynamism needs an information retrieval system which serves searcher¡¯s ambiguous, ill-formed, short queries with relevant result in a precise way. Web search result clustering has been emerged as a method which overcomes these drawbacks of conventional information retrieval (IR) systems. It is the clustering of results returned by the search engines into meaningful, thematic groups. This paper gives a succinct overview and categorizes various techniques that have been used in clustering of web search results. %K Information Retrieval %K Clustering & Web Search Result %U http://airccse.org/journal/ijcses/papers/3412ijcses07.pdf