The invention discloses a retrieval method and a retrieval device. A specific embodiment of the method comprises the following steps of receiving a retrieval request from a user, wherein the retrieval request comprises retrieval keywords; performing retrieval operation on at least one reserved social networking site according to the retrieval keywords to generate a retrieval information set; scoring each piece of retrieval information in the retrieval information set according to website information of the social networking site, corresponding to the retrieval information and author information about contents of the social networking site, corresponding to the retrieval information; sorting all pieces of retrieval information according to scores to generate a set of sorted retrieval information as a retrieval result. According to the embodiment, the retrieval result has higher pertinence.