This invention relates to an information processing apparatus and an
information processing method for simply providing the results of
searches as expected by users searching for broadcast content. A search
space processing section 103 acquires a search keyword based on search
information coming from a user terminal, and searches a search keyword
dictionary database for search-related keyword data related to the search
keyword. On the basis of the search keyword and search-related keyword
data, the search space processing section 103 generates a search keyword
space and submits the generated space to a correction process. A search
processing section 104 compares the corrected search keyword space, EPG
data, and an EPG keyword space for a match. A search display processing
section 105 prepares a list of display-ready information from the result
of the matching and sends the list to the user terminal. This invention
can be applied advantageously to systems that provide broadcast content
information over the Internet.
