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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase a speed in a method of retrieving series of Web pages. SOLUTION: In this inquiry processing method for combining and designating a condition relating to the attribute extracted from the Web page and a condition relating to a hyperlink from a large amount of Web pages transmitted on the Internet, and retrieving the series of Web pages, an index relating to the Web page is utilized, a processing cost and a processing result of a condition which has not yet been processed, and on which the processing result can be obtained without depending on the processing result of the other condition, is estimated on the basis of the condition designated in the inquiry, and the operation for selecting and processing the optimum condition in accordance with the status of the inquired processing is repeated until all of the conditions designated in the inquiry have been processed, to determine the series of the Web pages satisfying the condition of the inquiry. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
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