Method and device for providing information

The invention discloses a method and a device for providing information. The method comprises the steps of: based on a search keyword input by a user, seeking each search channel corresponding to the search keyword; according to the sought search channel, respectively executing the following processes: searching the information corresponding to the search keyword in the information contained in the search channel; obtaining a channel relevancy value between the search channel and the search keyword; according to the obtained channel relevancy value, determining the channel relevancy grades of the search channel directing at the search keyword; determining a sort order of each search channel according to each determined channel relevancy grade; and providing the searched information for users according to the determined sort order of each search channel. By the technical scheme provided by the invention, the problems of consuming a large quantity of processing resources of websites and lowering the search processing efficiency in the prior art are solved.