SEARCH DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH SEARCH PROGRAM IS RECORDED, AND SEARCH METHOD

摘要

A search device (200) correlates and records keywords representing products or the like, the degrees of importance of the keywords, and the locations of Web pages in which the products or the like are described. Upon receiving information indicating that a user intends to purchase: a first product or the like described on a Web page present at the searched location on the basis of a search query, which is a keyword designated by the user, and the degree of importance of the keyword; and a second product or the like described on a another Web page, the search device (200) correlates the location of the Web page in which the second item or similar item is described, the designated search query, and the degree of importance calculated by a prescribed statistical process.

主权项

1. A search device comprising:
a memory device for correlating and storing keywords describing a product or service, the degrees of importance of those keywords and the locations of Web pages in which the products or services are described; a searching part for searching the location of the Web page from the storage device based on a search query that is a keyword designated by a user and the degree of importance correlated to that keyword; an exhibiting part for exhibiting to the user a search result designating the location of the searched Web pages; and an updating part for updating the memory device, when information indicating that the user has an intent to purchase a first product or first service described in a Web page at the searched location and a second product or second service described in a Web page different from the Web page at the searched location before a prescribed period elapses from when the search query was designated by the user, by setting the designated search query as a keyword describing the second product or the second service, and by correlating and storing that keyword, the degree of importance of that keyword calculated by a prescribed statistical process and the location of a Web page in which the second product or the second service is described.