Patent ID: 8812592

Claim:
A method for recommending information for users, the method comprising: receiving, by at least one server in a network, from an application website, a recommendation request carrying information about a user's operation on the application website and identity information of the user associated with a website with social relationship information; sending, by the at least one server in the network to the website with the social relationship information, a social relationship information request carrying the identity information; receiving, by the at least one server in the network from the website with the social relationship information, a response to the social relationship information request, wherein the response includes a list of users having a social relationship with the user; obtaining, by the at least one server in the network, from a user behavior database, operation records of at least one user listed on the list of the users, wherein the operation records are collected from at least one application website; generating, by the at least one server in the network, recommendation information according to the operation records and the information about the user's operation from the application website, wherein the application website is independent from the website with the social relationship information, the at least one server which is for generating the recommendation information is independent from the application websites and the website with social relationship information; and in response to the recommendation request, sending, by the at least one server in the network the recommendation information to the application website.