3. A method, performed by a computing system, for displaying information from one or more linked web pages and without requiring user commitment to downloading the one or more linked web pages, the method comprising: accessing and displaying a current web page that includes a displayed and selectable link to a corresponding linked web page; determining the displayed link is referenced within a stored link list that is accessible to the computing system, wherein the stored link list includes, for each link referenced within the link list, a web page address and summary information corresponding to a web page associated with each link, respectively; accessing the summary information associated with the corresponding linked web page, wherein the summary information is configured to be displayed in response to a cursor hovering over the displayed link; receiving user input that causes the cursor to hover over the displayed link; and in response to receiving the user input that causes the cursor to hover over the displayed link, displaying the summary information within an informational region that is displayed simultaneously with the display of the current web page, wherein the displayed summary information includes paragraph headings extracted from the linked reference corresponding to the displayed link and prior to receipt of the user input causing the cursor to hover over the displayed link, and which paragraph headings are stored in the summary information for the displayed link, wherein displaying the summary information includes displaying up to a predefined maximum number of paragraph headings from the summary data.
18. A method as recited in claim 3 , wherein the summary information is displayed in the information region along with additional information corresponding to a number of times the linked content has been accessed.