To provide an information recommendation device for recommending the optimal information to a user without using any rating information to be input by the user.

The use history of a user is collected as necessary, and recorded in a use history storage means 340. When access is performed by a certain user, the user is defined as the person of access, and the total number of pieces of use information used by the person of access in the past among pieces of use information used in the past by the other users is divided by the total number of pieces of use information used in the past by the person of access, and the cover value of the person of access for each of the other users is calculated for each direction, and the cover values in the both directions calculated for each direction are multiplied by each other, so that the correlation coefficients of the person of access and the other users can be calculated, and the correlation coefficients with the other users who have used the use information used in the past by the person of access are extracted for all the other users, and the total sum of the correlation coefficients is calculated as the recommendation value for each use information, and the recommendation of content corresponding to the use information is executed on the basis of the value.

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