JP2002351900A - Information search system for internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information search system where both the merits of convenience of a directory type and the large scale of contents of a robot type are combined. SOLUTION: In the system, a tag to determine to which category each home page or its contents deployed in the Internet 11 belongs to is inserted to all homepages or to other contents, the tags are read by a robot and registered to the specified category and the homepage or the contents registered to the specified category is displayed by an operation of a user following the directory.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for retrieving a target content from information developed on the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Currently, there are two types of engines used for information retrieval on the Internet. The first of these is a directory type that follows the desired item from the classified categories. The categories are set in a hierarchical manner in advance, and the user can find the target content by following the hierarchy. I can get there,
Easy to understand and operate even if you are unfamiliar with keyboard operation. However, there are drawbacks in that the labor of sorting and registering contents by category is required on both the service providing side and the contents creating side, and the amount of contents is small because the work of registering each category depends on humans.

[0003] The second search engine is based on a keyword, and a robot traverses and collects the contents to create a database. The user inputs the keyword and inputs a URL (Uniform Resource) of the target content.
Locator). In the robot type, the robot patrols the content
There is no need to consider the trouble of registration because it is collected, there are few search omissions, there is no need to register again when new content is created, and there is an advantage that the amount of content that becomes a keyword is large. On the other hand, since keywords are automatically generated automatically from the content, the content may be slightly different from the user's (that is, human) 's sense or request, and depending on the content,
There is a disadvantage that a large amount of content is displayed uselessly, and that there is a lot of so-called garbage.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and its object is to provide an Internet having both advantages of directory-type convenience and robot-type contents. The above is to provide an information retrieval system.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a tag for determining which category each homepage or other content developed on the Internet belongs to, in all the homepages. Or means inserted into other content, the robot reads the above tag, registers it in the specified category, and displays the homepage or content registered in the category specified by the operation of following the directory by the user. It was taken.
Further, in the present invention, the robot reads the tag, registers the tag in the specified category, converts the content into a keyword for corresponding to the keyword search, and displays the content registered in the category specified by the operation of following the directory. In addition, it is possible to take a measure of displaying contents registered in a target category by a keyword search after an operation of following a directory.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An information retrieval system according to the present invention is for retrieving a target content from information developed on the Internet. The contents broadly include information contents, homepages, and software called content software, such as, for example, painting, movies, and music appreciation software.

According to the present invention, when deciding to which category each home page or other contents developed on the Internet belongs, the work is entrusted to the creator of each home page or the creator of the contents. By performing the categorization on the creator side of the homepage or the content, it is possible to prevent the burden of sorting on both the service provider and the content creator afterward.

[0008] Categorization is performed by inserting a tag for determining to which category a homepage or other content belongs. The object to be inserted is an html file, which is performed using an appropriate command.

In the present invention, a "category" is used in the sense of a category to which information belongs, and may have a one-dimensional, two-dimensional or three-dimensional spread. For example, the category of hobbies has lower-level concepts such as outdoor, sports, and driving, and the outdoors has lower-level concepts such as gardening, walking, and hiking. It has subordinate concepts, and each concept is also a category.

In the present invention, the skeleton of a category is determined, or this or all the categories may be arranged according to a hierarchy. Taking the above as an example, the skeleton of the category is determined, for example, hobby>outdoor>gardening> supplements.

The registration to each category is automatically performed by reading the tag by a robot and registering the tag in a designated category. More specifically,
The content creator puts tagged content on the server, and the robot takes a tour and collects the data. The collected tag data is analyzed, categorized and registered. Thus, most of the work is done on the hard disk of the server computer. It is assumed that the collection destination URL of the content creator is registered with the service provider.

Therefore, a user who is an end user can search for a category by performing an operation of following a directory on the display, and can display contents or the like registered in a target category on the display. After or during the operation of following the directory, a keyword search can be executed. For that purpose, it is necessary to convert the content into keywords in advance so as to correspond to the keyword search.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in more detail with reference to the illustrated embodiments. The information retrieval system on the Internet according to the present invention can be implemented by an apparatus having the configuration shown in FIG. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 11 denotes the Internet, 12 denotes a server, 13 denotes a communication port, 1
Reference numeral 4 denotes a hard disk, and 15 denotes a personal computer or other computer, which relates to a service (information) provider.

In the hard disk 14 of the personal computer 15 of the server, in addition to the category, the UR
L, a database file for storing titles, comments, etc. and data for full-text search, a program for traversing and collecting contents, ie, a robot, a program for analyzing and categorizing and registering tags of collected contents, and a program for converting full-text search data into a database , A category display program, a full-text search result display program, a new category registration / deletion / change program, a content collection destination registration / deletion / change program, and a server program that supports the Internet protocol. After obtaining a ware driver and starting up with an operating system from a storage device such as a ROM or a hard disk,
In order to improve the calculation speed, the above programs read from the hard disk, a part of data, and the like are stored and reside as various programs. If the data cannot be read into the memory, or if the memory is temporarily insufficient during the operation, the data is written to the swap area (virtual memory) of the hard disk although the speed is reduced. The virtual memory is used as an extension of the mounted memory. The server is managed and operated by a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 17, receives information requested from a communication port from the Internet network, and registers, deletes, changes, and deletes information on a memory including a hard disk and a virtual memory in accordance with the above programs and the like. Returns the information requested through the communication port to the Internet network. Further, it is possible for an administrator to view information data through a display device such as a display, and register, delete, or change the information data through an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse.

FIG. 2 is a processing flow chart of the system of the present invention showing a process for categorizing contents.
First, the content creator places the tagged content on the server 12 of the content creator. Assuming that the tag has a category skeleton in the embodiment of the invention, for example, <META Category = “Hobbies, Outdoors, Gardening, Goods” Menu URL = “http: //www.heiw”
a-gr. co. jp / gardening / shop
/ Index. html ”Subject =“ Heiwa Gardening Shop ”Comment =“ Sale of goods imported directly from the UK ”> Alternatively, a similar command may be inserted in the comment. In the above,“ Category ”is the category for which registration is desired Separate by commas and M
nuURL is the URL of the menu page, and Subj
ect is a title, Comment is a comment, a summary or a brief description, and other necessary items can be entered.

The content creator registers the collection destination URL with the service provider if the collection destination URL is not registered in the content patrol / collection program on the service provider side, that is, the robot collection destination. If the registration is completed, the patrol / collecting robot goes around to read the contents, collects the tags as described above, and registers the tags in the category designated as Category. At this time, the robot converts the contents into keywords and creates full-text search data. If the specified category is not in the category of the service provider, the category is newly added.
It is registered by the new category registration / deletion / change program and registered in that category. In order to prevent categories from being overwhelmed, periodically or at the timing of each new registration,
The new category is checked using the display, and if there is an inappropriate one, it is deleted or changed using the input device. If there is a category of service provider's idea, it is registered from the input device.

FIG. 3 is a processing flowchart of the system of the present invention showing a process of information retrieval by a user. After accessing the Internet 11, the user basically performs an operation of following the directory on the display, and as a result,
A menu page written in MenuURL registered in the target category is displayed on the display. When a user searches the directory to a certain extent and performs a keyword search, the corresponding content is displayed from the contents registered in the narrowed category, so that the accuracy is incomparable with the conventional keyword search. Therefore, the corresponding content is displayed in a large amount.

This is the advantage of the category and keyword search system of the present invention. If the number of displayed items is large, the number of items is displayed by dividing the number of items into about 10 to 50.

As described above, according to the information retrieval system of the present invention, a user can obtain a large number of contents that meet a request by a directory-type retrieval that is easy to understand and does not require keyboard operation. Since the searched URL is a menu page, it is not browsed from the middle of the content. By using a robot, a search service provider can provide a directory service without human intervention. Although it is difficult to input characters on a highly portable terminal, according to the present invention, since the user can reach the content only by clicking, there is an advantage of the service, and the content creator should appeal to users in the category targeted for the content. Can be. When new content is created, there is no need to register again. Although it seems burdensome to write meta-commands and the like, even now, content creators still have to use robot. Since meta-commands are used for txt and keyword searches, and furthermore, texts are carefully considered and keywords are listed so as to be easily searched, it is determined that such a burden is not a problem. In addition, the meta-command is simple and accurate if the template is displayed on the page of each category and cut and pasted.

[0020]

Since the present invention is constructed and operates as described above, it realizes an information retrieval system on the Internet which has both advantages of directory-type convenience and robot-type contents. can do.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a device that can be used for implementing an information search system on the Internet according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a processing flowchart of the present invention showing an embodiment of a process for categorizing contents.

FIG. 3 is a processing flowchart of the present invention showing an embodiment of a process of information retrieval by a user.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Internet 12 Server 13 Communication Report 14 Hard Disk 15 Computer

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A system for retrieving a target content from information developed on the Internet, which determines to which category each homepage or other content deployed on the Internet belongs. Tag is inserted into all homepages or other contents, the above tag is read by a robot, registered in the specified category, and registered in the category specified by the user following the directory. An information retrieval system on the Internet that displays home pages or contents. 2. A robot reads a tag, registers the tag in a specified category, converts the content into a keyword in response to a keyword search, and displays the content registered in the category specified by an operation of following the directory. 2. The information retrieval system on the Internet according to claim 1, wherein contents registered in a target category are displayed by an operation of following a directory and performing a keyword search.