*ME 1st Year (Computer Science and Engineering), H.V.P.M COET, SGB Amravati University
**Prof, Information Technology, H.V.P.M COET, Amravati
Online published on 11 August, 2014.
In this paper we describe the challenges which are faced in information retrieval (IR) on the Web, in particular other types of data, what is Web mining and the issues relating to crawling. We also describe how IR and Soft Computing are related to each other and how these techniques describe the challenges.