Patent ID: 8330982

Claim:
A print control apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store web page information which is received, in response to search key information transmitted to a server of a search engine, from the server; and a print controller configured to control printing of web page information, wherein the storage unit further stores transition information indicating a transition state from the web page information received in response to the search key information transmitted to the server to the web page information to be printed, and wherein the print controller performs operations including: extracting search key information from the transition information including a URL of the web page information to be printed and a URL of source web page information, from which the web page information to be printed is linked, the extracting operation including extracting the search key information from a URL corresponding to the server of the search engine; combining the web page information to be printed and the extracted search key information; determining whether the URL of the source web page information corresponds to the URL corresponding to the server of the search engine; and wherein if the determining operation determines that the URL of the source web page information corresponds to the URL corresponding to the server of the search engine, the extracting step extracts the search key information from the URL of the source web page information.