SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD INTEGRATING USER JUDGEMENT INCLUDING TRUST NETWORK

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system capable of having a user compose a trust network from social network data expressing a relationship of the user to other users.SOLUTION: A search system and a method incorporates user judgement information regarding various pages or sites. This information is capable of including judgement of a user who questions and judgement of other users selected as members of his "trust network" by the user who questions. When a question is received from the user, a list of hits related to that question is capable of being changed based on the judgment of the user which is given before and the judgement of other users given before by members of the trust network defined by the user who questions.