System and method for facilitating internet search by providing web document layout image

A search system on the Internet provides a search result in response to search criteria provided by a user. The search system comprises a robot agent for extracting web document information and layout images of web documents on the Internet; a first database for storing the web document information extracted by the robot agent; a second database for storing the layout images extracted by the robot agent; and a search unit for retrieving web document information and layout images, a, from the first database and the second database, respectively, in response to the search criteria.