The three keywords are in the primary-colored boxes arranged in a triangle. The other boxes represent the sites that were returned from the search and are labeled with the site name. The system uses a tension model for layout of the site boxes around the keyword boxes. Additionally, the boxes are repelled by each other and by the edges of the screen. The layout algorithm uses a technique called simulated annealing to arrange the boxes so that the system comes to rest in a state where the maximum number of links can achieve their desired length.
Users can adjust the layout by hand to uncover any boxes which are hidden by others.
As a result, sites which are highly ranked for all three keywords are in the center of the triangle, those which are highly ranked for two lie on the edge of the triangle, and those which are highly ranked for one are on the outside, near the term for which they rank highly. At the rightmost end of each site box is a set of small colored boxes. Each column represents one page from the search that is a member of that site. Within each column, there are three small colored boxes which match the colors of the keyword boxes. The intensity of these small boxes indicates the rating of that particular page for each keyword.