INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM, INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

The objective of the present invention is to allow a user to easily view a predetermined indicated number of values of search results for information other than information currently displayed as the search results. The present invention is an information provision device which, in response to a request from a terminal device, transmits search results which are results of a search by an information retrieval device to be displayed upon the terminal device via a network to the terminal device, and is provided with: search result information transmission means for transmitting, to the terminal device, search result information indicating one or more units of information among information retrieved by the information retrieval device; graph display information transmission means for transmitting graph display information for displaying a graph indicating a relationship between an order of display for the search results of the information retrieved by the information retrieval device and the predetermined indicated number of values related to the information; and range designation display information transmission means for transmitting range designation display information for displaying, upon the graph, predetermined range designation information at positions indicated by a display range, which is the range of information indicated by the search result information.