Webometric Analysis of Private Engineering College Websites in

It has been experienced that web- based information resources have great role to play in academic and research activities. Keeping this fact in view , information professionals are lar gely depending upon the web- based information resources. A huge amount of data in every subject stream is available on dif ferent websites. Internet is a network of networks carrying information on almost any subject under the sun. Everybody today would like to be on the internet because of the wealth of information that lies there to be exchanged. And, with its global connections and millions of users, the internet is the world' s biggest electronic library and public gathering place, which contains a vast amount of information. Information professionals and users face a number of challenges in networked information resources and service environment. But problem is only one that how to retrieve desired information. Many attempts have been made and the solution seems to be 'webometrics'. In this paper an attempt has been made to describe this concept.