International Journal of Information Studies Chaker Jebari 5 3 2000 https://www.dline.info/ijis/fulltext/v5n3/ijisv5n3_2.pdf In this paper, we propose a new weighting technique for genre classification of web pages. Our technique is based only on character n-grams extracted from the URL of the web page rather than its textual content. Moreover, our technique exploits the structure of the URL. Experiments conducted on three known genre datasets show that our method achieves encouraging results