9. A method of enhancing a web index with uniform resource locator (URL)/non-encoding character (NEC) word pairs to facilitate relevance ranking of search results provided in response to a search query that includes NEC words, the method comprising: receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to a web page, wherein the URL includes a first string of encoding characters; transforming, by a computing device, the first string of encoding characters into one or more NEC words, wherein said transforming includes inferring a translation based on content from the web page, the content including at least one element of the web page other than the URL, wherein transforming the first string of encoding characters into one or more NEC words includes representing said first string of encoding characters by one or more pairs of URL substrings and corresponding NEC words; and storing the set of NEC words in a web index.
9. A method of enhancing a web index with uniform resource locator (URL)/non-encoding character (NEC) word pairs to facilitate relevance ranking of search results provided in response to a search query that includes NEC words, the method comprising: receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to a web page, wherein the URL includes a first string of encoding characters; transforming, by a computing device, the first string of encoding characters into one or more NEC words, wherein said transforming includes inferring a translation based on content from the web page, the content including at least one element of the web page other than the URL, wherein transforming the first string of encoding characters into one or more NEC words includes representing said first string of encoding characters by one or more pairs of URL substrings and corresponding NEC words; and storing the set of NEC words in a web index. 11. The method of claim 9 , wherein said NEC words include Chinese words, Japanese words, or Korean words.