Patent ID: 8676796

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a user input that includes a search domain selected from a plurality of search domains; querying a document database of the selected search domain with a first search based on first search terms as a first attempt to obtain desired information; querying the document database of the selected search domain with a second search based on second search terms as a second attempt to obtain the desired information, wherein the first and second search terms comprise different search terms; displaying, in a single active window, two or more results sets that include the selected search domain, the search terms used, document identifiers and document snippets from responsive results for the first and second searches; determining overlap between the two or more results sets; and visually coding particular results of the two or more result sets to reflect the overlap; wherein the particular results of the two or more result sets are displayed in a second display area in the single active window that is separate from a first display area in the single active window in which the two or more results sets are displayed.