Patent ID: 8250065

Claim:
A method of displaying information, comprising: retrieving over a network from a plurality of sources, a plurality of summaries of sets of information, the sets of information being stored on a plurality of servers over the network; for each of the summaries in the plurality: identifying a timestamp of when each said summary was retrieved; and storing, associated with said summary, the timestamp; detecting a number of times the sets of information have been viewed; and providing, to a browser for display of a web page, at least a portion of each of at least some of the summaries with a standalone indication responsive to the number of times the sets of information corresponding to each said summary have been viewed relative to the number of times other sets of information, for which the timestamp corresponds to a criteria, have been viewed, wherein the providing comprises providing, for each of the provided summaries, a first link including an identifier of a provided summary and an address of a computer system on the network, wherein the criteria comprises a time period ending with a current time, and wherein the detecting comprises: receiving, at the computer system, the identifier in response to a selection of the first link on the web page; incrementing, in response to the selection of the first link on the web page, a counter corresponding to the identifier, the indication being responsive to the counter and a difference between the timestamp and the current time; and sending, to the browser, a redirect command in response to the selection of the first link, the redirect command comprising an address of a server source of the set of information corresponding to the identifier, wherein the method further comprises selectively providing, to the browser, a second link for retracting a click through of the first link such that a click through of the second link causes the counter to be decremented, detecting the click through of the second link, and decrementing the counter based on the click through of the second link.