Patent ID: 8015259

Claim:
A method for retrieving and viewing webpages in a single web browser instance operating on a user's computer, comprising the sequential steps of: submitting, from said single web browser, a search request to an Internet search engine located on the Internet, wherein said search request is initiated by the user receiving a hyperlink list from said Internet search engine, said hyperlink list having been automatically rank-ordered by said Internet search engine, and wherein said hyperlink list by default is not displayed; automatically preloading a plurality of webpages referred to by said hyperlink list to form a rank-ordered queue of webpages stored on the user's computer; viewing at least two webpages from said rank-ordered queue of webpages in separate windows within said single web browser instance such that all of said at least two webpages are fully active and simultaneously visible, and where any of said at least two webpages may be operated on without altering the state of another of said at least two webpages; and wherein descendant webpages are preloaded for some, but not all, of said at least two webpages.