Patent ID: 7184974

Claim:
A used car information search method implemented on a computer, the method comprising causing a computer to perform: a step of extracting, from a database containing records of used cars of a plurality of different types, all records that match a type of used car specified in search condition information input by a user, said records that match said type comprising first used car data; a step of extracting from said first used car data, as price zone information, a minimum price and a maximum price of used cars that match the type specified in the search condition information, the price zone information being extracted irrespective of a user-input price specified in the search condition information; a step of extracting, from said first used car data, second used car data coincident with the user-input price and other items of search condition information designated by the user; and a step of transmitting the price zone information and the second used car data for displaying them to the user; wherein the type, the user-input price, and the other items are input by the user before starting a search.