Method and system for single-action personalized recommendation and display of internet content

A system to present content retrievable using a distributed network having a plurality of users, the system comprising:

• a computer processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer program modules configured to execute on the computer processor, the computer program modules including instructions to:
• present a toolbar to a user of the plurality of users, the toolbar including a toolbar button selectable to retrieve, from one of a local cache or a network, a recommendation for content from a uniform resource locator (URL) of a plurality of previously stored URLs, each URL corresponding to a previous recommendation for content at that URL;
• transmit, in response to a first single-action input through selection of the toolbar button, a first request to retrieve a first recommendation for content, the first recommendation triggered by the first single-action input;
• receive a content from a first URL from the plurality of previously stored URLs, the first URL corresponding to the first recommendation for content;
• present the content from the first URL;
• transmit, after presenting the content from the first URL and in response to a second single-action input through selection of the toolbar button, a second request to retrieve a second recommendation for content, the second recommendation triggered by the second single-action input;
• receive a content from a second URL corresponding to the second recommendation of content, the second URL retrieved from the plurality of previously stored URLs, wherein the second recommendation for the content from the second URL is based on preferences of the user rather than the content from the first URL;
• and
• present the content from the second URL.

A computer program product having a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable code for presenting content retrievable using a distributed network having a plurality of users, the computer-executable code comprising instructions to:

• present a toolbar to a user of the plurality of users, the toolbar including a toolbar button selectable to retrieve, from one of a local cache or a network, a recommendation for content from a uniform resource locator (URL) of a plurality of previously stored URLs, each URL corresponding to a previous recommendation for content at that URL;
• transmit, in response to a first single-action input through selection of the toolbar button, a first request to retrieve a first recommendation for content, the first recommendation triggered by the first single-action input;
• receive a content from a first URL from the plurality of previously stored URLs, the first URL corresponding to the first recommendation for content;
• present the content from the first URL;
• transmit, after presenting the content from the first URL and in response to a second single-action input through selection of the toolbar button, a second request to retrieve a second recommendation for content, the second recommendation triggered by the second single-action input;
• receive a content from a second URL corresponding to the second recommendation of content, the second URL retrieved from the plurality of previously stored URLs, wherein the second recommendation for the content from the second URL is based on preferences of the user rather than the content from the first URL;
• and
• present the content from the second URL.