Abstract: Displaying search query records as moveable thumbnail objects in a flip page metaphor whereby mouse-dragging on a first axis pages the objects from background to foreground, a mouse-down event over an object fires an event to retrieve data at a uniform resource location associated with the object.

Abstract: The method combines searching based on the content of an original document with the merger of the original document and the results of the search. The operator of a client machine selects an original document, which contains several meaningful words, and loads it on the client machine. When the operator wishes to search on a network for related documents, the operator causes a content search application to parse the document for the meaningful words and to rank those words into a ranked list according to some predetermined order. The content search application then composes one or more search queries based on the terms in the ranked list. The application shows some form of the proposed query(ies) to the operator, and accepts the operator's input, which input may be in the form of additions, rejections, or accepting the terms and/or phrasing of the query.