INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM AND ITS METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information collection system for efficiently executing a retrieval operation in using a retrieval service by using a retrieval key when the members of a group cooperatively perform the same operation. SOLUTION: In accepting a retrieval key from a user computer 30, when the same retrieval key as the retrieval key is registered in the retrieval result registered after inquiring the registered retrieval results, and when the retrieval result is registered by a user in charge of the same operation as that of the user who is using a user computer 30 at present, an intermediate server 10 transmits addresses registered in association with the retrieval key to the user computer 30. In the user computer 30, the addresses of not only retrieval results by a retrieval server 40 but also retrieval results whose retrieval keys are matched among the retrieval results registered in the intermediate server 10, and registered by the user in charge of the same operation among the matched registered retrieval results are displayed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT