What is disclosed is acquiring information regarding a web page, without
having to commit to downloading that page. In one embodiment, after a
current web page is downloaded from one source, and information regarding
web pages linked to by links in the current web page are downloaded from
a second source, when a user hovers a cursor over a link on a current web
page, an informational region is displayed by the link that includes the
information from the second source. The informational region may include,
for example, a text box that apparently floats by the link. The
information in the region can include, for example, keywords in the meta
tags of the web page; paragraph headings of the web page; links on the
web page to other pages; etc.