An affiliate service that leads to the advertiser's product database retrieval process when the user selects a character string in the document at the user terminal in which the afreiter dispatch document is displayed

摘要

To add a novel service of an affiliate advertisement model by using a computing environment of an existing affiliate advertisement model as is.SOLUTION: When a viewer of an affiliate program document selects an arbitrary text string in a document, a link destination menu is displayed in a manner similar to a short cut menu. The link destination menu includes a link to an advertiser linked to an advertiser system. When the viewer clicks the link to the advertiser in the link destination menu, a query indicating to search the commodity data base of the advertiser system associated with the advertiser link with selected text string is transmitted from the user terminal to the advertiser system, and in response to this, a search result of the commodity data base is transmitted from the advertiser system to the user terminal and displayed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1