PORTAL SITE PROVIDING DEVICE AND PROGRAM THEREFOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily grasp a category of a content found by keyword retrieval. SOLUTION: A content database 23 is provided to store categories to which the contents belong, in every content to be browsed from a portal site. When a retrieval keyword is input from a user terminal with user registration authorized, a retrieval processing part 15 detects the contents corresponding to the retrieval keyword, and obtains from the content database 23 the categories to which the one or plurality of detected contents belong, in every one of the contents. A page preparing part 13 prepares a retrieved result page for displaying information of the respective contents together with the categories to which the contents belong, and a page transmission part 14 provides the retrieved result page to the user terminal input with the retrieval keyword. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI