Patent ID: 8341135
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information search provision apparatus comprising: at least one processing unit that operates to perform at least the steps of acquiring a search conditional statement and providing contents, matching the search conditional statement, as a search result; a collection unit which collects contents, to be evaluated, posted on a web page via a network at predetermined timings; a reliability control unit which determines a value, which is indicative of a degree of reliability of the contents to be evaluated, depending on whether or not it is possible for the collection unit to collect the contents to be evaluated; a history increase range controlling unit which controls an increase range in the value indicative of the degree of reliability of the contents to be evaluated, according to a history on whether or not it is possible for the collection unit to collect the contents to be evaluated, and a presenting unit which displays the value, which is indicative of the degree of reliability of the contents, and the search result to a user of the apparatus on a display, wherein the collection unit repeatedly accesses a uniform resource locator (URL) of the web page at the predetermined timings for collecting the contents to be evaluated and stores a plurality of collection histories that are indicative of whether or not the contents to be evaluated could be collected by the collection unit at the predetermined timings respectively, and the plurality of collection histories are used to determine the degree of reliability of the contents.