Abstract: In most E-commerce web sites, key word search is an important way for users to find commodities, and calculation of the term weights is a major step for search engine to process queries. In order to overcome the shortness of existing methods in calculation of term weights in query processing, this paper proposed a new method, which combines importance with relevance of terms when calculating term weights. It effectively improves the correctness of the determination of the term weights, and is practical and reliable.

Key words: information retrieval, search engine, term weight