Patent ID: 8898135

Claim:
An information processing device, including at least one processor, comprising: a search keyword acquiring unit, within said processor, that acquires search keywords from a terminal device; an item setting unit, within said processor, that sets a first item and a second item displayable by scale axes in accordance with the search keywords; a searching unit, within said processor, that makes a search by the search keywords; a first display data generating unit, within said processor, that generates first display data for displaying a 2D distribution indicating more than or equal to a predetermined number of search hits by the searching on a Web page in accordance with the scale axis values of the items in a plane with two axes including the scale axis of the first item and the scale axis of the second item; a transmitting unit, within said processor, that transmits the generated first display data to the terminal device; a designated region acquiring unit, within said processor, that acquires information on a designated region designated by a user of the terminal device from the terminal device for the displayed 2D distribution; a search result transmitting unit, within said processor, that transmits, to the terminal device, second display data as a list of search results for displaying search results by the search belonging to the designated region on the terminal device; and a scale axis value acquiring unit, within said processor, that acquires the scale axis values of the first item and the second item in order to set three or more points in the plane, wherein the designated region acquiring unit acquires information on a designated region defined in the plane by the points set by the acquired scale axis values from the terminal device.