Abstract: In an Internet or online advertising method, a server computer maintains a an electronic site or page accessible via a computer network and transmits to a user computer accessing the site or page advertisements selected in accordance with buying habits of individual users and independently of content on the site or page. The transmitting of the site or page and the transmitting of the advertisements is such that the advertisements and the sites or pages are simultaneously displayed on user computer monitors. The sites or pages may include Internet search results, the advertisements being independent of or unrelated to the content of displayed search results.

Abstract: An online shopping management system is a computer system including at least one server computer. The computer system is provided with software for assisting customers in recording and organizing information pertaining to purchases made by the customers over a global computer network from a plurality of different merchants via a plurality of different websites. An electronic shopping method includes automatically monitoring each screen displayed on a user's computer monitor while the user navigates the World Wide Web, automatically collecting particulars of purchase transactions engaged in by the user, storing in a memory the particulars of the transactions and of multiple-online purchases made by the user, and providing to the user a summary display of collected and stored information pertaining to the online purchases made by the user.