Patent ID: 8301614

Claim:
A method comprising: sending, to a client, a page of content, the page of content including instructions that, when interpreted by a content presentation application at the client, cause the content presentation application to perform: displaying at least first content, wherein said first content is a subset of the content in said page; displaying one or more contextual search icons; wherein each contextual search icon displayed as a result of interpreting the page is associated with a different portion of the content of the page than each other contextual search icon, the different portion including content that is outside of the contextual search icon and not associated with any other contextual search icon; wherein said contextual search icons include a particular contextual search icon associated with the first content; detecting a user selection of the particular contextual search icon; in response to detecting the user selection, and while continuing to display at least a portion of said page, displaying an expanded contextual search interface corresponding to the particular contextual search icon, the expanded contextual search interface including both (a) a query entry area configured to accept entry of one or more query terms from the user and (b) a search submission control element; wherein the expanded contextual search interface was not displayed prior to detecting the user selection of the particular contextual search icon; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.