Information providing apparatus, information providing method, a program, and an information recording medium

An information provision device (12) presents more appropriate search results to the user while using an existing search function. A query reception part (201) receives input of a query. An acquisition part (202) acquires search results consisting of matched information containing identification information and a snippet of a search target satisfying the query. A correction part (203) corrects the search results for each piece of matched information contained in the search results based on the character string obtained by removing the character string contained in the query from the character string of the snippet corresponding to the matched information. A presentation part (204) presents the matched information contained in the corrected search results.