Patent ID: 8904437

Claim:
A similar content search device, comprising: an information acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of program information including description information and genre information of a content; an information storage unit that stores the plurality of program information; a receiving unit that receives a designation of a program of interest; a phrase extracting unit that acquires program information of the program of interest from the information storage unit and extracts a phrase from description information included in the program information of the program of interest; a first searching unit that searches for first program information having the phrase from the information storage unit; a genre characteristic word storage unit that stores a combination of a genre and a phrase characteristic of the genre; a phrase similarity calculating unit that calculates a phrase similarity between the program information of the program of interest and the first program information; a reducing unit that reduces the phrase similarity when the phrase stored in the genre characteristic word storage unit is included in the program information of the program of interest and the first program information and the genre combined with the phrase is included in the program information of the program of interest and the first program information; a first presenting unit that presents the first program information based on the phrase similarity reduced by the reducing unit; a genre extracting unit that extracts genre information included in the program information of the program of interest; a second searching unit that searches for second program information having the genre information from the information storage unit; a genre similarity calculating unit that calculates a genre similarity between the program information of the program of interest and the second program information; and a second presenting unit that presents the second program information based on the genre similarity.