PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To collect only information which is useful to users.;SOLUTION: A starting point URL, the number of stages of links whose information is to be collected and keywords representing unnecessary words are set in a setting file 13. A link label extraction module 113 extracts link character strings from page information collected from a network (the Internet/intranet) 20. A link determination module 114 determines whether the page information of a linking destination is useless from the extracted link character strings and the set keywords representing the unnecessary words. A collection control module 111 controls the collection of information from the network 20 by following the links from the starting point URL. The collection control module 111 does not collect the page information of the linking destination which is determined to be useless by the link determination module 114 even if the information is in a range of the number of the set stages.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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