Patent ID: 7395498

Claim:
A Web page evaluating method comprising: storing in advance, a correspondence between a plurality of domains, each of the plurality of domains including at least one category having a Web page group comprising Web pages for dissemination of information on the Internet, and a plurality of evaluation items related to the domains to objectively evaluate information disseminating items, and determining said correspondence between the plurality of domains and the plurality of evaluation items by extracting the information disseminating items set in advance from information in the Web page group, said information disseminating items including contents of dissemination information from the Web pages, based on evaluation criteria specific to information disseminating items of the Web pages; extracting and arranging stored evaluation items corresponding to a specified domain from the plurality of evaluation items; generating an evaluation set including the extracted, stored evaluation items for the specified domain; extracting the information disseminating items from a Web page to be evaluated, corresponding to the extracted, stored evaluation items of the generated evaluation set; computing an evaluation score of the Web page using the evaluation items included in the generated evaluation set and obtaining a hierarchical depth comprising a reciprocal of an appearance number from a top page of the Web page to be evaluated for each information disseminating item contained in the evaluation set; and presenting an evaluation result including the computed evaluation score.