Information providing device, method, program, information display device, method, program, information search system, and recording medium for enhanced search results

摘要

An information providing device includes a search result information transmission means that transmits search result information, which indicates one or more pieces of information of information that has been searched for by an information search device, to a terminal device, a graph display information transmission means that transmits graph display information for displaying a graph showing a relationship between display order in which the information that has been searched for by the information search device as the search result and a value of a predetermined presentation item related to the information is displayed, and a range indication display information transmission means that transmits range indication display information for displaying predetermined range indication information at a position in the graph, the position indicating a display range being a range of the information indicated by the search result information.

主权项

1. An information providing device for transmitting a search result, which is a result of a search by an information search device and which is displayed by a terminal device, to the terminal device through a network according to a request from the terminal device, the information providing device comprising:
at least one memory to store program code; at least one processor to access said memory and read said program code and operate as instructed by said program code, said program code including: search result information transmission code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to transmit search result information, which indicates a part of pieces of information that has been searched for by the information search device, to the terminal device; graph display information transmission code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to transmit graph display information for displaying a graph, concurrently with the search result information, showing a relationship between display order in which the information that has been searched for by the information search device is displayed as the search result and a value of a predetermined presentation item related to the information, the graph showing the relationship concerning all pieces of the information that has been searched for by the information search device, the graph being a graph in which the display order is indicated by a horizontal axis and the value of the presentation item is indicated by a vertical axis; and range indication display information transmission code configured to cause at least one of said at least one processor to transmit range indication display information for displaying predetermined range indication information at a position in the graph, the position indicating a display range being a range of the information indicated by the search result information.