Abstract: A system for concise display of query results via thumbnails consisting of images and keywords is disclosed. The query result display system has a query result display module, comprising computer-executable code stored in non-volatile memory, a processor, and a user interface device. The query result display module, the processor, and the user interface device are configured to perform a query of the plurality of indexed documents, determine one or more indicative images for each of a plurality of indexed documents, and provide a set of result documents drawn from the plurality of indexed documents, perform a distinguishing keyword analysis for the set of result documents based on a measure of differentiation, determine one or more differentiating terms for each result document based on the distinguishing keyword analysis, and depict each result document using a representative image incorporating the at least one distinguishing images along with the at least one differentiating terms.