Patent ID: 7529771

Claim:
An information-gathering apparatus comprising: a storing unit that acquires information on a first address of a first web-page from a server having a web archive that stores the first address and the first web-page corresponding to the first address, and stores the first address in a gathered-address table; an access-log acquiring unit that accesses the first web-page based on the first address stored in the gathered-address table, accesses from the first web-page a second web-page linked to the first web-page, and acquires a second address of the second web-page as an access log; a determining unit that determines whether the second address is stored in the gathered-address table; and an information gathering unit that gathers the second web-page via the network based on the second address when the second address is not stored in the gathered-address table, wherein the access-log acquiring unit accesses a script web-page that is operated by script when the first web-page is output, and acquires an address of the script web-page as an access log, the determining unit determines whether the address of the script web-page is stored in the gathered-address table, and the information gathering unit gathers the script web-page via the network based on the address of the script web-page when the address of the script web-page is not stored in the gathered-address table.