The invention provides a tool for quantitatively analyzing internet news influence based on
information retrieval and a method thereof. The tool comprises a webpage content duplication determine module, a
relevant information extracting module, a news
reprint rate calculating module, a newsletter source website influence determine module, a news
recovery rate calculating module and a news influence calculating module, wherein, the webpage content duplication determine module determines whether a webpage is an approximate webpage or not; the
relevant information extracting module extracts
relevant information in the webpage; the news
reprint rate calculating module reprints a website technorati authority value; a news source website and the news
reprint rate are found out; the newsletter source website influence determine module determines the popularity index of the news source website to acquire a newsletter source website
influence factor; the news response rate calculating module determines a network news
recovery rate; and the news influence calculating module calculates the news influence value. The method comprises the following steps: determining that whether the webpage is the approximate webpage or not; extracting news webpage reprint information and
recovery information; calculating the news reprint rate; calculating the recovery rate of the news; calculating the technorati authority of the news source website; calculating the
influence factor of the news source website; and calculating the news influence. The quantitative calculating result is combined with
qualitative analysis of a user to help the user determine the news influence.