Abstract: An invention is disclosed that uses methods and systems for enhancing users' Web surfing experiences by providing various functions including: delivery of content that is related to the user's present location or actions; providing collaborative browsing tools that manage the participants' rights interactively to control a particular collaborative browsing session; aggregating and then sharing with users information related to a particular Web site, action or object on the Internet; and offering various types of predefined collaborative browsing sessions in order to enhance the users' online experiences. These and other functions are accomplished via a browser companion that is downloaded or incorporated into the users' Web browsers. The browser companion communicates with a back-end server architecture that couples to various databases. The browser companion provides the appropriate server(s) with information about each user's present location or action within the network, e.g., Internet.