In order to acquire answer information to be searched from a large amount
of question information, there is provided an FAQ search engine which can
acquire an appropriate term and acquire appropriate information by using
the term as a search keyword. It comprises a document of describing a
search keyword, a terminal unit for acquiring the search keyword from the
document and inputting the search keyword, a database which has a keyword
group consisting of search keywords obtained by adding numbers to the
keywords described in the document, and an FAQ data group for managing
FAQ data relevant to the numbers, a number acquisition portion for
acquiring the number corresponding to the provided search keyword out of
the keyword group, a data extract portion for acquiring FAQ data
corresponding to the number acquired from the number acquisition portion
out of the FAQ data group, and an FAQ display portion for displaying the
FAQ data on the terminal unit.