The present invention discloses an information processing method and an electronic device. The method comprises: receiving a first search request sent by a first terminal device, wherein the first search request comprises first operation information and the first operation information is used for representing a category of a first operation; and based on the first operation information, carrying out detection to obtain at least one application from an application database in network service equipment, wherein when each of the at least one application is in an operating state, a second operation obtained by detection can be responded to and the second operation and the first operation are used as the same category of operations.