Patent ID: 8423540

Claim:
A related information presentation system, comprising: link information storage means for storing a plurality of link information items in a database, wherein each of the link information items in the database is associated with at least one other link information item; information acquisition means for acquiring, from a user, an information item which serves as a base point; link information application means for selecting an information item stored in the link information storage means related to a given information item; related information selection means for selecting an information item which is indirectly related to the information item which serves as a base point acquired by the information acquisition means by utilizing the link information application means a plurality of times, wherein the information item acquired by the information acquisition means is used as the given information item a first time the link information application means is utilized by the related information selection means, and wherein, for each of a subsequent plurality of times the link information application means is utilized by the related information selection means, the selected information item output from a previous utilization of the link information application means is used as the given information item; and information presentation means for presenting to the user on a display the information item selected by the related information selection means, wherein the information presentation means presents, concurrently, all of the information items selected by the link information application means in the order that the information items were selected by the link information application means, and wherein the information presentation means presents text linking each of subsequently presented information items to the previously presented information item.