The rapid growth and generalized accessibility of the World Wide Web (WWW) have led to an increase in research in the field of the information retrieval for Web pages. The WWW is an immense and prodigious environment in which Web pages resemble a huge community of elements. These elements are connected via hyperlinks on the basis of similarity between the content of the pages, the popularity of a given page, the extent to which the information provided is authoritative in relation to a given field etc. In fact, when the author of a Web page links it to another, s/he is acknowledging the importance of the linked page to his/her information. As such the hyperlink structure of the WWW significantly improves research performance beyond the use of simple text distribution statistics. To this effect, the HITS approach introduces two basic categories of Web pages, hubs and authorities which uncover certain hidden semantic information using the hyperlink structure. In 2005, we made a first extension of HITS, called Extended Hyperlink Induced Topic Search (XHITS), which inserted two new categories of Web pages, which are novelties and portals. In this thesis, we revised the XHITS, transforming it into a generalization of HITS, broadening the model from two categories to various and presenting an efficient machine learning algorithm to calibrate the proposed model using multiple latent categories. The findings we set out here indicate that the new learning approach provides a more precise XHITS model. It is important to note, in closing, that experiments with the ClueWeb09 25TB collection of Web pages, downloaded in 2009, demonstrated that the XHITS is capable of significantly improving Web research efficiency and producing results comparable to those of the TREC 2009/2010 Web Track.