摘要 |
An object of the present invention is to provide an information providing system and method for timely providing relevant information matching users' interests changing momentarily according to users' access to arbitrary pages. Another object thereof is to make the contents of each page in a list display of relevant information easier to be understood. In an information processing server and a terminal connected with a network, partial information in which a user is considered to be interested is extracted from contents displayed in the terminal, and it is transmitted to the information processing server. Information relevant to the partial information is searched for, and sent back to a browser of the terminal. Thereby, information relevant to the information in which the user is considered to be interested is timely provided to the user, and phrases characterizing each page in a page set of search results are extracted and displayed as a list display.
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